There
can be little doubt that the southern culture is the prominent culture in the United States
However
one wishes to look at the southern sub-culture, it is worth noting that
southerners are patriotic to the Stars and Stripes and they are good citizens
with a strong sense of social order. As a whole, the South does bring a certain
sense of civility to the national stage. However, having observed all of that,
a question remains: who are the Southerners, and what gives them their
distinctiveness?
To explain southern distinctiveness, latter day
scholars have dissected federal census data from the 1790-1860 periods. Some
three-quarters of the white southerners hail from Britain ’s
Celtic fringe [explaining] much of the culture – unlearned, hot-blooded,
combative, warlike – prevalent below the Mason-Dixon Line .[1]
I am
not sure this is an apt description. Scotland ,
Northern, and Western England were not exactly
Celtic in the time period mentioned. By that time, most, if not all, of the
Celtic ancestry had been overrun by the Saxons. These same people settled in
and eventually collected as the Russians of today. We believe them to be of
Viking descent.
What
exists in the south today is a hybrid mix of the Celtic and Saxon warrior. This
is the opposite of the more unassuming European immigrants who ended up
populating the New England states.
As
such, southern culture, having long ago abandoned its old goddesses and gods in
favor of Yahweh and Jesus (punctuated by the Holy Spirit), is now asserting its
unique superiority across the majority of the nation. The Celtic, Saxon,
Germanic (from Texas ), and Gaul
(the Celtic’s grandparents) heritage is one of perpetual battle for superiority
and acquisition of resources. The Gaul lineage
predates Roman antiquity. They rose from southern Russia Europe , and brought about the ordered chaos
of the city states in antiquity’s version of “States Rights.”
In
conjunction with the Roman Catholics, the Church of Yahweh
They
derive their sense of natural law from family, community, and a central
government that acts as an advisory counsel, but not a governing body. To
understand the ideals they bring to government, just study the functions of the
Southern Baptist Conference. Power resides in the membership of the local church;
the wider body is, just as stated, advisory.
Knowing
the parentage of the southern culture is to argue against Phillips enlightened
assurances that a theocracy cannot control a nation of 300 million people. It
has. It functioned in Europe for many years
longer than our constitutional republic has existed. Rough, superstitious, hard
working, earth-bound peoples chose to serve a god-king rather than participate
in a political process. Today, in spite of enlightened assurances otherwise,
there can be a theocratic United
States
[1]
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips, p. 135
[2]
The Druids, Peter Berresford Ellis, Eerdmans 1994
Kevin Phillips in his recently published American Theocracy, states, “We can begin by describing the role of religion in American Politics with two words: Widely underestimated.” Religion and politics are incredibly intertwined in the U.S., as they were in Europe before the foundation of the U.S.; and, that influence has been overlooked by the Establishment. Yet, George Gallop, the famous pollster, said, “religious affiliation remains one of the most accurate and least-appreciated political indicators available.” (Potts, Clifford A. Radicals, Religion, and Revelation. 1st ed. Dallas: WordTechs Press, 2008. 5-6. CD-ROM).
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