Republican Party and the Neo-Confederates

[cra...@anet-dfw.com]

Recently much was made of the fact that Pat Buchanan was the
senior advisor of the Southern Partisan, a neo-Confederate magazine.

However, he is not the only leading Republican with ties to the
Neo-Confederate movement.

Phil Gramm - Has been interviewed in the Southern Partisan in the same
U.S. Senator issue in which denounces the Declaration of Independence
as liberal propaganda.

Also in the Recent Confederate Embassy news
which is published in Washington D.C.. Article says
he is going to support ending the Legal Service Corp.

Dick Armey - Has been interviewed in the Southern Partisan, and is also
House Rep. the favorite of a Texas Neo-Confederate magazine
called the Texas Republic.

Trent Lott - Besides being interviewed in the Southern Partisan, has
U.S. Senator a regular column in the Citizen Informer, a publication
of the Neo-Confederate organization Council of Confederate
Citizens.

Trent Lott is on the Recruitment video of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans.

Funderbunk - On masthead of Southern Partisan
House Rep.

Tom Pauken - On masthead of Texas Republic. He is the Texas State
Republican Chariman.

Thad Cochren - Interviewed in Southern Partisan.
U.S. Senator

Jess Helms - Interviewed in Southern Partisan.

There is actually quite a few college professors, leading conservatives,
and writers etc. involved.

The issue about the Confederate flag is not about a piece of cloth.

It is, a group of individuals who besides being white supremacists,
are also anti-democratic. Seriously don't want modern democracy.
They are bound together by the Confederate mythology, and a
Neo-confederate ideology which is a core binding element of their
ideology. The Confederacy is not a peripheral issue with Pat
Buchanan, but a central organizing element in his thinking.

Besides binding them together as a group, they use Confederate
mythology to shape the public's historical memory and by this method
affect public thinking. They have skillfully used this to great
affect.

A house stands on a foundation that you don't see, politics stands
on the foundation of public shared historical memory.

The study of the Neo-Confederates is the study of white supremacy in
this country in the Colleges and conservative magazines. The flags
are the markers of imagination.

-- Crawfish