Neo Confederates Quotes

“No matter how many Northerners flocked to Atlanta, an essential Southernness would endure. "We have an extra layer of armor. Our culture."

Collins's armor deflected every arrow I tried to fling at his arguments. The heritage movement wasn't backward-looking, he said; it was tuned precisely to the times. "We're anti-federal. Con-federal, if you like. I'd rather that Georgia not get one federal dollar." He believed this same independent streak had sparked the Civil War, which in his view was fought over economic issues and constitutional sovereignty. "If all the South wanted to do was to maintain slavery, the easiest way was to stay in the Union, where slavery was legal." Nor did the rebel flag symbolize the oppression of blacks; after all, the Stars and Stripes flew over slavery for eighty years, which the battle flag of the South never did. "The Confederacy was an attempt to institute a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Period.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“Like so many neo-Confederates I'd met, the two men had walled themselves inside a stockade of their own creation and erected around it an ideological deadline. Anyone who made so much as a feint toward the opposite side had to be gunned down as a traitor to the Cause.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War