Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;

It is the center hole that makes it useful.

Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room;

It is the holes that make it useful.

Therefore profit comes from what is there;

Usefulness from what is not there.

Tao Te Ching (Ch-11)

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is an intriguing organization. I think it best shows how misunderstood the South has been over the recent years.

Addison Graves Wilson, Sr is a proud member of the SCV. Addison, also known as smoking Joe Wilson has been a proud member of his South Carolina District in the Congress of these here United States.

Addison just represents the best of South Carolina. The best that fine state has to offer. And the beauty ofit is, when someone like Addison sticks his neck out to voice HIS OPINION  on some things, there is a home crowd so to speak watching his back.  When this man demonstrated the fortitude, the love of his country and the concern for the great State of South Carolina  by vomiting during a special Joint Session of Congress, he had his friends covering his backside:

 "Mr. Wilson, never apologize for allowing your love of truth to overrun your desire to be polite," the SCV Tea Party declared on its website. "It is the liar who must apologize, not the one who identifies the liar!"

You betchya!!!! Just exactly what rush said. 

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909100018?lid=1063906&rid=34455905

Once Lyons helped install his close friend, Ron Wilson, as president of the SCV, the organization's political newsletter, The Southern Mercury was transformed into a propaganda mill for crude white supremacist cant. Mailed to all dues-paying members of the SCV until it folded in 2008, the Mercury published articles describing blacks as genetically inferior to whites, calling African-Americans as "a childlike people," and warned that if Obama runs for re-election, race riots of an "exceedingly violent nature" would immediately ensue, leaving "entire sections of some of our cities in ruins."

Here are a few highlights from the Southern Mercury:

"After the turn of the 20th century, the white Southerners had disfranchised and segregated the blacks, in perhaps the mildest reaction possible at that time to the blacks' transgressions. The blacks--then a childlike people--had been selling their votes to the Democrats en masse for $.25 apiece in national elections."
--"Where We Stand Now, And How We Got Here," by Frank Conner, Southern Mercury, September/October 2003

• Mark McKinnon: Send Joe Wilson Home"Previously, anthropologists had routinely recorded the notable differences in IQ among the races; but at Columbia, a liberal cultural anthropologist named Franz Boas...decreed that there were no differences in IQ among the races, and the only biological differences between the blacks and whites were of superficial nature... Meanwhile, the liberals in the media heaped special praise upon black athletes, musicians, singers, and writers--and treated them as typical of the black race. The liberals were creating a false image of the blacks in America as a highly competent people who were being held back by the prejudiced white Southerners."

This is what rush and sean and weiner savage and hume and mcconnell and boner and Buchanan are referring to when they harangue the LIBERAL PRESS. They were going to institute IQ tests in the South so that you would have to qualify prior to voting. But some research has demonstrated that only 20% of the whites would qualify--most of them being Democrats--so the idea was temporarily shelved.

Not only is it clear that white folks built this country as Buchanan likes to point out. http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/07/16/video-white-people-built-this-country-pat-buchanan/   and here http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/pat-buchanan/

I mean except for a few things like the U. S. Capitol building,   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGCK7_9RkXs, what have the African-Americans contributed to this country? I ask you.

I mean if it were not for the balls. I mean the football and the basketball and baseball and now the golf ball, the damn blacks would have nothing. And SCV knows this and in trying to point things out. I mean its time to put an embargo on balls.  If something is not done soon, the white man will have nothing to watch at all on tv except NASCAR and golf when Tiger is laid up awaiting another surgery.

Well the balls and Jazz and Rock and...well lets just say a whole lotta music. And I suppose a whole lotta artists in general, and a whole lot of journalists, and a whole lotta authors, and...aah forget it. I forgot my point.

The SCV has demonstrated that the south faces many fears and much travail over the next few years:

It is very clear to me that if Barack Obama should be elected President, he would be extremely anti-white and would demand reparations for slavery and press hard for affirmative action to the degree that it would hurt young whites who were seeking jobs or admission to College and Graduate Schools."
--"Americans Face The Worst Presidential Candidates In History," by Robert Slimp, Southern Mercury, May/June 2008

"I believe that [Obama's] rhetoric and anti-white legislative proposals would stir up racial riots. If he were running for re-election, these riots would turn into an exceedingly violent nature that would seriously damage race relations in America, and leave entire sections of some of our cities in ruins."
--Slimp, May/June 2008

I mean, WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?

What we do know is that while serving as a state senator, Wilson led an SCV-inspired campaign in 2000 to keep the Confederate flag flying above South Carolina's state capitol. "The Southern heritage, the Confederate heritage, is very honorable," Wilson proclaimed at the time, responding to critics of the Confederate flag.

It is that Southern Heritage at work here and at work in the repub party.  A proud heritage indeed.

Wilson's rebel yell at Obama has electrified the Republican grassroots, filled his campaign coffers with donations solicited on conservatives websites, and earned the previously unknown backbencher primetime appearances on right-wing talk shows. Interesting choice.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-11/joe-wilsons-rebel-yell/2/

Now Addison began his political career working as an aide for that other stalwart of southern justice Strom Thurman, the most important South Carolinian in the 20th century. And Addison would like to take that heritage just a little further:

In December 2003, when Essie Mae Washington-Williams acknowledged that she was the illegitimate daughter of the recently-deceased South Carolina Senator Storm Thurmond, Joe "You Lie" Wilson said he didn't believe her. Rep. Wilson, a former page of Thurmond's, immediately told The State newspaper that he didn't believe Williams. He deemed the revelation "unseemly." And he added that even if she was telling the truth, she should have kept the inconvenient facts to herself:

"It's a smear on the image that [Thurmond] has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina," Wilson said.  http://www.alan.com/2009/09/10/wilson-bashed-stroms-mixed-race-daughter-in-2003/

THIS IS THE NEW SOUTH, THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY.