THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT! - An authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history and its lasting effects on contemporary society. The South Was Right! uncovers evidence that the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and occupied by a vicious aggressor.

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Too few people understand that the victor of a war creates the history text. This book dispells the lies, or propaganda for the politically correct zealots, pounded into our heads by the oppressor. The Kennedys have done an excellent job of documenting their statements. Some statements were unbelievable because of years of brainwashing by the public schools. After requesting copies of cited sources I was overwhelmed and wanted to scream the truth to the world. The sad part is the world hears what it wants to...not always the truth.

Southerners, read this and hold your head high. Yankees, read it and follow up with some serious introspection. Descendents of former slaves (like myself and anyone else from the south), read it and learn the truth of Lincoln, the long-legged liar, and the north's propaganda campaign for support. Learn how the yankees truely felt about blacks in society.

The South Was Right is the rare kind of writing that comes along every now and then, greatly influencing the global course of human events for generations to come.

Thomas Jefferson pointed to the phenomenon of the Yankee just before his election as president when he wrote: "It is true that we are completely under the saddle of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and that they ride us very hard, insulting our feelings, as well as exhausting our strength and substance." At about the same time he remarked of New England, the original breeding ground of Yankees, that they were "marked with such a perversity of character" that the natural political division of the United States would always be between Americans (non-New Englanders) and New Englanders.

When Washington Irving, whose family were among the early Anglo-Dutch settlers of New York, wrote the story about the "Headless Horseman," he was ridiculing Yankees. The prig Ichabod Crane had come over from Connecticut and made himself a nuisance. So a young man (New York young men were then normal young men rather than Yankees) played a trick on him and sent him fleeing back to Yankeeland where he belonged. James Fenimore Cooper, of another early New York family, felt the same way about New Englanders who appear unfavorably in his writings. Yet another New York writer, James Kirke Paulding (among many others) wrote a book defending the South and attacking abolitionists. It is not unreasonable to conclude that in Moby Dick, the New York Democrat Herman Melville modeled the fanatical Captain Ahab on the Yankee abolitionist. In fact, the term "Yankee" appears to originate in some mingling of Dutch and Indian words, to designate New Englanders. Obviously, both the Dutch New Yorkers and the Native Americans recognized them as "different."

For anyone familiar with American history before the War, it is clear that "Southern" was American and New Englanders were the problem. America was Washington and Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase and the Battle of New Orleans, John Randolph and Henry Clay, Daniel Morgan, Daniel Boone, and Francis Marion. Southerners had made the Constitution, saved it under Jefferson from the New Englanders, fought the wars, acquired the territory, and settled the West, including the Northwest. To most Americans, in Pennsylvania and Indiana as well as Virginia and Georgia, this was a basic view up until about 1850. New England had been a threat, a nuisance, and a negative force in the progress of America. Northerners, including a few patriotic New Englanders, believed this as much as Southerners.

New Englanders have no civilization - only money and ideology. Without us to abuse and claim to feel superior to, they would not exist. If the United States was a normal country, the idea of breaking down a federal government that has grown much too big would be a normal part of political discourse. But, alas, the United States is not a normal country; it is the cannon fodder for a ruling class driven so mad by wealth and power that it seeks to dominate the Earth.

There have been grave mistakes in the course of American history, apart from the original one of going navely into a Union with bad people. There was Bragg commanding the Army of Tennessee and Longstreet fumbling at Gettysburg. In the same class is the decision of American leaders, when they were kicked out of the Democratic Party, to join the Republicans rather than form an American Independence party. It was probably inevitable. Today there are no Neo-Confederates or Union Leaguers in Congress or in governors' chairs - only Republicans and Democrats.

Right into the war, Northerners opposed to the conquest of the South blamed the conflict on fanatical New Englanders out for power and plunder, not on the good Americans in the South who had been provoked beyond bearing. Many people, and not only in the South, thought that Southerners, according to their nature, had been loyal to the Union, had served it, fought and sacrificed for it as long as they could. New Englanders, according to their nature, had always been grasping for themselves while proclaiming their righteousness and superiority.

The New Englanders succeeded so well, by the long cultural war described in The South Was Right, and by the North's military victory, that there was no longer a New England problem. Now the Yankee was America and the Southerner was the problem. America, the Yankee version, was all that was normal and right and good.

But we still have something the New Englanders don't have and have never had. There are still people writing books and poems and songs about Jeffersonian America. There is, despite all, a real American/Southern culture left. If you want to put secession on the table, let's consider the only part of the United States that really could be its own country. A true culture is the best basis for a viable country. Compared to that, all the New England whining amounts to nothing but an adolescent tantrum at not having everything exactly their own way.

There is nothing new about New Englanders whining either. Twice during the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and several times later, they threatened to break up the Union in fits of pique when they failed to get their way. The current Blue State commentators are using extreme language to characterize the non-Kerry states. To hear them tell it, the red states are dominated by religious maniacs and militarists - i.e., people who actually believe the Bible and love their country. There is nothing new about this invective either. This kind of hateful demonization of those who resist domination by New Englanders has been commonplace for about three hundred years or more.

In short, American freedom was not a legacy of the "Puritan Fathers," but of Virginians who proclaimed and spread constitutional rights. New England gets some credit for beginning the War of Independence. After the first few years, however, Yankees played little part. The war was fought and won in the South. Besides, New Englanders had good reasons for independence - they did not fit into the British Empire economically, since one of their main industries was smuggling, and the influential Puritan clergy hated the Church of England. Southerners, in fighting for independence, were actually going against their economic interests for the sake of principle. Once Southerners had gone into the Union (which a number of wise statesmen like Patrick Henry and George Mason warned them against), the Yankees began to show how they regarded the new federal government: as an instrument to be used for their own purposes. Southerners long continued to view the Union as a vehicle for mutual cooperation, as they often naively still do.

The South was morally right.
The South was legally right.

Read this book and decide for yourself.