DIXIE HERITAGE - Receive your FREE eBook!
  • DIXIE HERITAGE
  • SIGN-UP
  • Store
  • Newsletter
  • Radio
  • LINKS
  • SupportDH

If the South Had Won the War?

8/28/2015

 
We start this week's letter with some interesting observations from a Yankee:
 
What If the South Had Won the Civil War?
By William S. Lind
January 9, 2003

Historians often indulge in scholarly speculation as to what the course of history would have been had major wars, battles, elections or the like gone the other way. In such an exercise, William S. Lind, Director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism, wrote a commentary in 1999 hypothesizing a course of history had the South won and the Union lost our American Civil War.

Three years later a controversy has erupted. Reports in The Sacramento Bee and The Washington Post were published in the past few days centering upon that 1999 commentary. Bill Back, a candidate in the current contest for state GOP chairman in California had published the commentary in an e-letter at the time that it was originally published in 1999. In the wake of the Trent Lott controversy, Back fell under fire for having done so, eventually feeling compelled to apologize for racial insensitivity. Notable News Now readers can judge for themselves whether Mr. Lind's commentary deserves the label of 'hateful bigotry" that was thrown at it by Shannon Reeves, who is Back's opponent, or whether the attacks reflect a Politically Correct mindset.

If the South had won the Civil War, where might our two countries be today? It is of course impossible to know, and as someone who proudly wears his great-grandfather's G.A.R. ring-he served in the 88th and 177th Ohio Volunteers, and his diary records the monitors bombarding Fort Fisher as he watched from a Union transport-I'm not entirely comfortable asking the question. But given how bad things have gotten in the old U.S.A., it's not hard to believe that history might have taken a better turn. Slavery of course would be long gone, for economic reasons. Race relations today in the Old South, in rural areas and cities such as Charleston, South Carolina, are generally better than they are in northern cities, so we might have done all right on that score. When southerners say they have a special relationship with blacks based on many generations of living together at close quarters, they have a point. The real damage to race relations in the south came not from slavery, but from Reconstruction, which would not have occurred if the South had won. And since the North would have been a separate nation, the vast black migration to northern cities that took place during World War II might not have happened.

Certainly Southerners would not be living under the iron rule of an all-powerful federal government, as we all do now. Northerners might not be, either; a Union defeat would have given states' rights a boost in both countries. The Tenth Amendment might still have the force of law even up north.

It is possible that both countries might still be republics, instead of a single empire. That transformation traces to America's entry into World War I, which might not have happened. Southern sympathy would probably have been with Britain and France, but the North, with a large German population, might well have lined up with the Kaiser (the Irish would have liked that, too).

No American entry into the war would have meant no Communism in Russia and no Hitler in Germany.

That's not a bad bargain. It is highly unlikely that the Confederacy would have embraced the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness that is fast becoming the official American state ideology. So at least part of North America would still stand for Western culture, Christianity and an appreciation of the differences between ladies and gentlemen.

Decency might have taken its stand in Dixie, along with some other good things such as an appreciation for the merits of rural life. Perhaps most important, Americans north and south might have a choice. If the North had turned left, as the United States has during this century, Northerners who didn't care for that development could cross the Mason Dixon line and become Southerners. That's an option more than a few of us Yankees would appreciate having, even if it did mean having to eat grits. What would my great-grandfather, Union Army sergeant Alfred G. Sturgiss, say to all of this? If he could see the sorry mess the country he fought for has become, I think he might sadly say that he'd fought for the wrong side.

Bill Lind is director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism.
Picture

I have just finished reading the book Under Whose God, authored by my long-time friend, Dr. Roy Branson.

When I was a doctoral candidate Dr. Branson was the president of the University and through the years I have flown him down to Texas and Florida to preach for me. When he comes he enjoys going with me to decorate the confederate graves in the local cemetery. A true so of the South, and long-time subscriber the Dixie Heritage Newsletter, Dr. Branson makes his home in Bristol,Tennessee. 

All of Dr. Branson's books are powerful and thought provoking. But this particular book is a must read for everyone who wants to see our homeland returned to her former glory!

Every Patriot will surely mourn over the pages that tell of abandonment and loss of our Christian heritage.

This is a beautifully bound hardback book. It has a leather-like binding that will look good on your shelf and feel good in your hands. But more importantly, this book will move your head and your heart! Hopefully it will move your hands and feet too!  

Picture
The cover price is $25 plus postage. At my request, the author has made several cases available to us at Dixie Heritage and our friends over at Berlin's Books have listed them for us on Amazon. They will donate the proceeds to the heritage fight.


CLICK TO ORDER DR. BRANSON'S BOOK



YESTERDAY IN KEY WEST:

A Key West official has vowed that the United States' southernmost city plans to restore a Confederate memorial, despite the recent uproar over symbols of Confederacy following the tragic deaths of nine people in Charleston, South Carolina, in June.

Clayton Lopez, who works on the Key West City Commission and is the only black member of this seven-person panel, has insisted that he has no objection to the Confederate memorial, which is currently being restored.

"I'm glad that we're actually doing it," Lopez insisted to NPR, "We have to preserve it. Why would we hide what actually happened? Good or bad, it's what happened."

The memorial in question was originally erected in 1924 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, where it has stood in Bayview Park in the city since.

But to highlight the cities appreciation of each army that served in the war, another monument, which is located just 140 yards away from the Confederate memorial, is being dedicated to two regiments from New York that were stationed in the city during the war.

These regiments both ended up perishing in Key West after they were struck down by a variety of diseases, which included yellow fever.

Speaking about the 91-year-old United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial, Tom Theisen, who has lived in Key West for most of his life, admitted that he'd never even been slightly perturbed by it before. However, because of the confederate flag debate, Theisen admitted to NPR that it has since been brought to his attention.

"I probably had seen it before," Theisen explained. "But it never crossed my mind until all the flag stuff."

Throughout the war the local sentiment was, for the most part, neutral. In fact, Tom Hambright, a historian for Key West's Monroe County Public Library, has explained that only seven people joined the Confederate forces, even though Stephen Mallory, a prominent Key West native, was hired as the secretary of the Confederate Navy.

Picture
Confederate flag removal paves way for Charleston bowl game:

Last night at 8:07 PM the Charleston Post & Courier reported that the only thing that had prevented the NCAA from allowing a bowl game in Charleston was the public display of the battle flag on the Statehouse. Well, the flag is down and the NCAA is rewarding the Scallywags with a bowl game.

The bottom line is that the NCAA is run by liberals, who make millions of dollars off the sweat of athletes (most of whom are young people of color) giving them nothing more than food, housing, and sub-par educational services in return. And they accuse our ancestors of advocating slavery?

Forgive my editorializing. Its my newsletter so I'm entitled.

After the whole Joe Paterno statue fiasco, the stripping of Penn State of their victories earned on a field of contest, and then the boycott of Indiana in the Final Four when the State passed a religious liberty bill in its Assembly, I was almost done with collegiate sports. Now this!

I'm convinced that anyone who is NOT a liberal (North or South) would do well to change the channel. Watch something else. MLB, NFL, NHL, and the NBA all overlap collegiate sports seasons. Professional Baseball and Hockey already have "farm" systems to raise their athletes. Minor League basketball and football would be better for the sports. And even though I'd miss going to a couple of Gator games each year, as someone whose been a season ticket holder for both Minor League baseball and hockey, I'd pay money to watch Minor League football.

While you are at it, send your kids to private colleges! They will get a better education. And the NCCAA (like the NCAA for religious schools) offers excellent athletic opportunities for the average student.


VISIT OUR WEBSITE:


YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flag to everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!

www.dixieheritage.weebly.com

Until next week,
Deo Vindice!

Respecting Our Flag and Our Heritage

8/21/2015

 
We must always remember that the Republican Party was and remains, "The Party of Lincoln." With that in mind, read Pat Buchanan's syndicated column below about Donald Trump and my comments which will follow:

GOP Elites Call for Purge of Trump
By Patrick J. Buchanan



In the Cleveland debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to support whomever the Republican Party nominates in 2016.


Trump would be wise to maintain his freedom of action.


For there is a plot afoot in The Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.


"A political party has a right to ... secure its borders," asserts the Post's George Will, "a duty to exclude interlopers." Will wants The Donald "excommunicated" and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.


"Marginalizing Trump" carries no risk of "alienating a substantial Republican cohort," Will assures us, for these "Trumpites" are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.


The Post's Michael Gerson says "establishment Republicans" must "make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse." He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.


Trump's followers are "xenophobic," Gerson tells CNN. They have a "resentment of outsiders, of Mexico, of China, and immigrants. That's more like a European right-wing party, a UKIP or a National Front in France. Republicans can't incorporate that."


But if the GOP has no room for Trump's followers, it has no future. For there simply aren't that many chamber-of-commerce and country-club Republicans.


Gerson mentions with disgust the U.K. Independence Party and France's National Front. What do those parties have in common?


Both are anti-New World Order. Both arose to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of their nations from the nameless, faceless bureaucrats of Brussels, those EU hacks who now dictate the kinds of laws and societies the Brits and French are permitted to have.


What motivates these folks is not all that different from what brought the farmers to Lexington Green and Concord Bridge and inspired colonists to stand by the original Tea Party boys in Boston.


New parties arise and outsiders are drawn into politics to fill voids and vacuums created by the failure of incumbent parties and politicians.


Case in point: Ex-speechwriter Gerson's boss George W. Bush.


With the country united behind him after 9/11, Bush called for war on an "axis of evil" - Iraq, Iran and North Korea - that had nothing to do with 9/11. He then persuaded Congress to authorize an invasion of Iraq to strip it of weapons of mass destruction it did not have.


Cost: 4,500 American dead, 35,000 wounded warriors, $1 trillion dollars sunk, 100,000 dead Iraqis, half a million widows and orphans, a country ravaged and a Mideast now awash in war and bloodshed.


Political result: The Republicans lost both houses of Congress in 2006, and the White House in 2008 to an anti-war Democratic Senator whose voting record was identical to that of Bernie Sanders.


Yet the leading establishment candidate of the Republican Party elites, in national polls and cash raised, is Jeb Bush, who took five days to concede the war his brother started may have been a mistake.


And the leading candidate of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, voted for the war that proved a disaster and against the surge that staved off the disaster until the Americans departed.


Our Beltway elites are demanding that Trump apologize for his remarks about women. But when have they apologized for having inflicted this disaster upon our nation and the Middle East?


Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that a record 42.1 million immigrants, here legally and illegally, are in the U.S., a population explosion being driven by Mexicans still flooding across the border.
Is it "xenophobic" to ask if Americans approve of this historic change in the composition and character of the country they love?


Is it outrageous to ask whether there is a correlation between this massive infusion of unskilled and semi-skilled labor from the Third World, and the stagnant and falling wages of native-born Americans?
The trade figures just came in for June. The trade deficit shot to $43.8 billion. Take out the $20 billion surplus in services, it was a $64 billion deficit in goods, pointing to a 2015 trade deficit of $750 billion in things Americans make with their hands, tools, machines.


This has been going on since Bush 41. And the correlation between these trade deficits and the trade deals our elites have negotiated is absolute. Trump says our negotiators have been getting their clocks cleaned by the Japanese, Chinese and Mexicans.


Is he wrong? Or are free trade and open borders now articles of faith, defined dogma, denial of which gets you excommunicated from the party of Gerson and Will?


Trump should tell the GOP, in the neocons' favorite phrase, "All options are on the table." And that includes the Samson Option.


Trump should tell the GOP that if it disrespects him and his followers, then he is prepared to do as did the biblical hero Samson, when, blinded and mocked by the Philistines, he pushed the pillars apart and brought the temple down upon the heads of them all.

The Republican establishment will understand that.
Picture
MY THOUGHTS ON THE ABOVE AND TRUMP
Not much has changed.I'm sure they were called something different in 1860 but the same "chamber of commerce and country club" republicans, lets just call them YANKEES existed way back then.

And our Southern ancestors seceeded 7 States in response to it. That number would grow to 13.

Our ancestors were not fighting to establish a new government. They just wanted to enjoy the freedom and prosperity of the old. Jefferson Davis said it oh so eloquently when he said that the Southern States were not fighting to do away with the constitution - but tom uphold it. It was their political partners to the North who had broken the compact!

Now, all these years later, the SAME issues are being fought about again. And in this case, we have a billionaire patriot who is willing to pony up hundreds of millions, maybe even a couple billion, of his own "dollars" to call his fellow yankees on it. I call them fellow-yankees because Trump is a New Yorker. But he is a New Yorker who loves his country and has only its best interest at heart.

Would Donald Trump be the best choice for President? I do not know yet. I do know that he can do no worse that those who have been running the government for some time now.

And might I say that if Trump had been president in 1861 he would have executed the office more solidly than did Lincoln.

I know some people have given Trump flack for saying that he would have put the battle flag in a museum. His comments were taken out of context. He said that it would be prominently displayed and that, "we must respect what we must respect." Remember that Trump is a New Yorker. So "respect" is important. When Trump made his comment about respect I am certain that he included in that a respect for our Confederate ancestors, our history, and our heritage.

At any rate, Trump may not be waiving the Confederate Flag. But he is NOT its enemy. This election cycle is starting early and will be an interesting one to follow.

It all comes back to what our late president Jefferson Davis said about any issue resolved only at the point of a gun is in reality unsettled and will undoubtedly keep reasserting itself until properly answered.

Picture
FROM YESTERDAY's USA TODAY

HURLEY, Va. - Chris Spencer is the only African-American student at Hurley High School, where the front doors he walks through each morning are painted with the Confederate battle flag, the first of many he'll see on any given school day.

The helmets of his Hurley Rebels football team sport a stylized logo of the flag, flying from a saber. Equipment in the weight room is stamped with the image too. Crossed battle flags are on the wall in the school's main office. Rebel Man, with a rebel flag, adorns center court in the gym.

But Spencer needn't wait until he arrives at school to see such images. He carries one with him wherever he goes. The senior running back has a battle flag tattoo on the underside of his right forearm, where he cradles the ball on each carry.

"It doesn't mean racism to me," Spencer tells USA TODAY Sports. "I just look at it as a flag. It's our mascot. It just means our school."

That's the party line in Hurley, a tiny coalmining community tucked into the southwest corner of Virginia, south of Kentucky and west of West Virginia, where longtime citizens say they just want to be left alone to rally around a symbol that's been with them for as long as they can remember.

"It means heritage, not hate," Hurley High principal Pam Tester says. "You won't find a single person in Hurley who thinks different."

And that includes Spencer, who wears his heart on his sleeve and his tattoo under it. In a community that's overwhelmingly white, the artwork on his arm is often offered as Exhibit A for the defense.



VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flag to everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!
    
www.dixieheritage.weebly.com

Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed

Shriners Ban Confederate Battle Flag

8/14/2015

 
SHRINERS BAN CONFEDERATE FLAG
 
SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Special Order No.4
2900 Rocky Point Drive
Tampa, FL33607-1435...
Series2015-2016    



To the Potentates, Officers and Members of Shriners International, fraternal greetings:   
Attention has been drawn to the political debate over the Confederate Battle Flag in the wake of the recent incident in Charleston, SC. As a result, in my opinion, as Imperial Potentate, I believe it is in the best interest of the Order and the Nobility that no temple, unit, club or member of Shriners International shall display in any form the Confederate Battle Flag or any image that reasonably can be construed as a reference to the Confederate Battle Flag.
 
Under the circumstances,********** it is my opinion, as the Imperial Potentate of Shriners International, that the following order with respect to the Potentates, Officers and Members of Shriners International should be, and hereby is issued.


ORDER   

***********Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by § 206.5(a) (1) and (5) of the bylaws of Shriners International, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:    
CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG PROHIBITION************
 
1. No Noble (in his capacity as a member of Shriners International) or club, unit, organization of Nobles or affiliated or appendant organizations of Shriners International, shall display any Confederate Battle Flag or any image that reasonably can be construed as a reference to the Confederate Battle Flag in Shrine or Civic Parades, Temple activities or in Shrine or non-Shrine public appearances.


##**2. No Noble (in his capacity as a member of Shriners International) or club, unit, organization of Nobles or affiliated or appendant organizations of Shriners International, shall participate in non-Shrine public appearances in which a Confederate Battle Flag or any image that reasonably can be construed as a reference to the Confederate Battle Flag is expected to be displayed by the organizer, promoter or by those in control of the premises or facility of the non-Shrine event.

 
Dated this 10th day of August, 2015
Jerry G. Gantt, Imperial Potentate    


ATTEST:
 

Copies to: John C. Piland, Executive Vice President/COO, Shriners International
Robert 0. Kuehn, General Counsel, Shriners International
Jon A. Hanson, Chairman, Jurisprudence and Laws Committee   


Yours in the faith,
John H. Ambrose, Sr.
Potentate 2015


Picture


RECEIVED FROM ONE OF THE READERS OF MY EDITORIAL TO SBC 

First off I would like to Thank You For the defense of our Ancestors. I would like to tell you Who Mine were.

My 4th Great Grandfather Ryan Frier Started the First Black Church in Jacksonville Florida. He was a missionary pastor and is Remembered on www.floridabaptisthistory.org and www.blackpast.org .

His sons were conscripted. My Uncle says in his journals that many of the poor of the area were against going to war. My Family had a Very hard complicated association with the war. Poor White people were treated badly by Slave owners and Slaves. People do not know the realities of what happened unless they read Journals of the Real people who fought this war. One of the largest Plantations in Jacksonville was Owned By a free African Woman and her family. They owned over 200 Slaves. Her descendants call her a hero.  

My family gave much to the beginnings of the Southern Baptist and they have now offended me and my Family by Their False knowledge of their own history.

My Grandfather's family should be honored not defiled by their own. I need to find a way to make the leaders of the Southern Baptist to realize their accusations of our Baptist leaders of the time are false. As you can see I am very upset that they have disgraced my Grandfather in such a horrific way. I need them to see they do not know of what they speak.

Picture
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS REMOVES JEFFERSON DAVIS STATUE

Yesterday, the University of Texas announced that it will remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from a prominent outdoor mall on its Austin campus to an indoor historical exhibit, the latest sign of a rapid national shift in attitudes about the public display of imagery related to the Southern Confederacy.

The Davis statue has been on display since 1933.



VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flag to everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!    

www.dixieheritage.weebly.com

Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed

Happy Birthday General Law

8/7/2015

 
US ARMY DEFENDS USE OF CONFEDERATE NAMES FOR BASES  

(ATLANTA - August 3, 2015)  In the wake of  attacks recently upon all things Confederate, some outspoken critics of  Southern heritage began calling for the renaming of US Army bases around  the South which bear the names of Confederate commanders from the War Between the States.  Some of the more prominent of these bases  include Fort Benning in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, and Fort Bragg in  North Carolina.  

Fort Benning, located in Columbus, Georgia, was named in honor of Henry Benning, one of the most influential men in  Georgia politics and a Confederate general after the outbreak of the  War.  Benning was a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court prior to the  War and was an outspoken proponent of the constitutional view of States' Rights and a limited federal government.  In fact, Benning wrote the  majority opinion in the important case of "Paddleford v Savannah" in  which he advanced the States' Rights doctrine that in all constitutional  questions, the Georgia Supreme Court is "coordinate and co-equal" with  the federal supreme court since the states created the federal  government.  Benning served admirably in the Confederate army during the  War and continued to be a leading figure in Georgia after the war's  end.  Thousands of soldiers in the US Army have trained at Fort Benning during  its history, including some of the most elite infantry and  airborne troops dating all the way back to World War II.

 US Army  spokesmen responded to the recent calls to rename bases named in honor of Confederate heroes by stating that the Army has no current intention  of renaming its bases. The bases named in honor of Southern heroes are  located in the South and were named in a spirit of reconciliation after  the late unpleasantness.

Picture
MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE  

The dates for the Southern Heritage Conference at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Laurel, Mississippi are Friday, August 14th and Saturday August 15th. On Friday evening the doors will open at 6 p.m. and they will open at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. 

Reservations for meals must be made by Monday, August 10th. 

Admission is $15 for individuals and $25 for families. Meals on Saturday are $10 for lunch and $15 for dinner. 

Come and learn the real truth about your Southern heritage and how the Yankee educational system and liberal media has lied and continues to lie about the South and what it stands for. Also we'll be talking about the current situation regarding the flag and what we need to do to save it! 

Bethlehem Baptist Church is across from Walker's Dairy Bar on Highway 184 East, Laurel, Mississippi 39440 

For information call 601-649-1867





TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

George Washington established the Purple Heart in 1782.

In 1942, the U.S. 1st Marine Division begins Operation Watchtower, the first U.S. offensive of the war, by landing on Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands.

in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti.Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents.

in 2005, a Russian Priz AS-28 mini-submarine, with seven crew members on board, is rescued from deep in the Pacific Ocean.

But of greatest note, in 1836, Confederate General Evander Law is born in Darlington, South Carolina. Law had a distinguished career in the Confederate army and earned a reputation as a brave and effective field commander.

Law, who attended the Citadel and studied law after his graduation, built a prewar career as a military instructor. After teaching briefly at the Citadel, Law instructed at King's Mountain Military Academy in South Carolina. He then moved to Tuskeegee, Alabama, to open a new military school. When the war broke out, Law became a lieutenant colonel in the Fourth Alabama Infantry.

Law's unit saw immediate action at the First Battle of  Manassas in July 1861. He was wounded, but was promoted to colonel shortly afterward, and fought at the Seven Days' Battles and Second Manassas, and at Antietam. His leadership at Antietam earned him a promotion to brigadier general in October 1862. He was also cited for bravery at Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he led his troops on foot after his horse was shot out from under him. Although he advanced quickly in the army, he also feuded with his corps commander, James Longstreet.

Law served in General John Bell Hood's division, and led the attack on Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He assumed command of the division when Hood was seriously wounded. Law and his troops, along with the rest of Longstreet's corps, were sent to assist fighting in the west. At Chickamauga. He took over after Hood was again wounded in battle. He then returned to Virginia, and fought in the campaign of 1864 before suffering a serious wound himself at the Battle of Cold Harbor. He spent most of 1864 recovering, and at the end of the war was in General Joseph Johnston's army, which surrendered to General William T. Sherman in North Carolina.

After the war, Law returned to his career as a military instructor, primarily at a school he founded in Bartow, Florida. He was the last surviving Confederate general before his death in 1920.

Back in 2004 I completed a 4-volume set of books titled Glory in Grey. It features a biography and photograph of all 425 Confederate Generals - including General Law. I spent 5 years looking for a set of books and when I could not find them I spent the next 5 years writing them. 
 
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE FOR YOUR KINDLE




4 HOURS AGO
 
 
Virginia revoked specialty license plates featuring a Confederate battle flag after a federal judge dissolved an injunction allowing the image.

    The Department of Motor Vehicles will begin recalling and replacing existing plates, Attorney General Mark Herring's office said in a statement. 

U.S. District Judge Jackson L. Kiser had issued an injunction in 2001 that allowed the image of the Confederate flag on specialty plates honoring the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Kiser said in a Thursday order that his decision is "no longer good law" because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Texas case that said specialty license plates represent the state's speech, and not the driver's speech.

  The DMV will work with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to design new plates. Once the plates are manufactured, they will be sent to affected motorists. "We're working as quickly as possible to get this done," DMV Spokeswoman Brubaker said. 

Affected motorists also will be sent envelopes addressed to the DMV asking them to return the existing plates to the state for recycling. 

In 1999, the General Assembly authorized the plates but prohibited any logo on the design. The Sons of Confederate Veterans sued, and Kiser sided with the group. The decision was upheld by a federal appeals court. 

Herring's office asked Kiser to dissolve the injunction after Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in June that he would move to have the plates phased out. 

"The Commonwealth's rationale for singling out SCV for different treatment is no longer relevant," the judge's order said. "According to the Supreme Court, the Commonwealth is free to treat SCV differently from all other specialty groups. Because the underlying injunction violates that right, I have no choice but to dissolve it."


Picture
VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flagto everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!
    
www.dixieheritage.weebly.com

Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed

    Author

    Dr. Ed DeVries is an author, pastor, public speaker, radio host, re-enactor, and the Director of Dixie Heritage.

    Archives

    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

The following is a PAID ADVERTISEMENT:
Picture

The following is a PAID ADVERTISEMENT:
Picture
© COPYRIGHT 2021. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.