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The Contest Is Not Over, The Strife Has Not Ended. It Has Only Entered Upon A New And Enlarged Arena

            This is a very small sample of how the South is being forced to live in a country that does not agree with our History, Heritage, and Culture. We Southerners have been forced at the end of a gun barrel to live without Honor and Integrity for over one hundred and forty years, now is the time to change that.

The South As Its Own Nation

By William Lamar Cawthon, Jr

            The American South, culturally the most distinct region of the United States and once an independent nation, has the population and the economy to form one of most powerful nations on earth. A Southern nation composed of only the eleven States of the former Confederate States of America, (i.e. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia), would have 74 million people, the thirteenth most populous in the world. It would have more people than France or Britain, and almost as many as the united Germany. In economic power, a Southern nation composed of the eleven States would have the fourth largest gross domestic product (1990) figures, after the reminder of the United States, Japan, and Germany.

            A Southern nation could be larger or smaller than the above eleven States. The Census Bureau defines the South as the former Confederate States, plus Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, with the District of Columbia thrown in. Politically, however, the South is the best defines as the eleven Confederate States, plus Kentucky and Oklahoma. This is the South as defined by the Congressional Quarterly. The Census Bureau and Congressional Quarterly South each have the largest population and gross domestic product larger than any other major U.S. region, and a gross domestic product larger than that of the Midwest or the West and essentially even with that of the Northeast.

How An Independent Dixie Would Compare To The Nations Of The World In Population

 Population 1993 data, in thousands

Gross Domestic Product

1990 data, in millions of U.S. dollars

Population – 1993 Data

Gross Domestic Product – 1990 Data

*Eleven State Confederate South

            Congressional votes over the past thirty years demonstrate how much more attuned to the conservative values of Southerners an independent Southern nation would be. On a number of key votes, reflecting a wide range of policy issues, the Southern Senators or representatives or both in the U. S. congress have cast majorities contrary to the votes of the U.S. Congress as a whole. On immigration, school prayer, abortion, busing, balanced budgets, size of government, taxation, and Supreme Court appointees, to name some of the issues, public policy during the past thirty years would have been decidedly different if the South had been an independent nation. These policy changes would produce a significantly different country, more in keeping with the desires and the cultural lifestyles of a majority of Southerners.

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