Dixie
Thomas Woods’ review of Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture by Clyde N. Wilson has prompted me to add an entry of the song Dixie. (See below.) You can read the review here.
There is no other historical figure in American history that is so surrounded by myths and out right lies then the sainted Abe Lincoln. Both the mainstream Left and Right like it that way. They use him as an example for their goals to promote and expand statism and war. It is the reason why these myths and lies need to be shattered. Thomas J. DiLorenzo has come to the rescue to do just this. Clyde Wilson is obviously another. So is Thomas Woods.
(I’ve read DiLorenzo’s first book on Lincoln. Not his second. At least not yet. Also I have read Woods’ book. I highly recommend them.)
What are the typical myths and out right lies: The so-called Civil War was about slavery. It was needed to end slavery. Lincoln had high ideals and wanted to unchain blacks. He saved the Union. Et cetera.
Shocked? Here are a few introductory articles on the subject:
- Six Myths About Lincoln --- DiLorenzo
- America’s Temple to Political Plunder
- What Lincoln's Army Did to the Indians
- Lincoln's Pro-Slavery Record
- Even More Articles --- King Lincoln Archive
First Verse:
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten,
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie land.
In Dixie land where I was born in, early on a frosty mornin’,
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie land.
Chorus:
Then I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie land I’ll take my stand, to live and die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
According to Patrick Buchanan in his book The Death of The West, in “1999, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was admonished in a formal resolution by the National Bar Association for singing ‘Dixie’ at the judicial conference of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rehnquist annually attends and leads the sing-along.” (pp 168-9)
The racism is just oozing out of that song, eh?
(Maybe it has code words that I am not familiar with.)
