The South Will Rise Again--But Not In IQ?

[Doug]

As GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson wrapped his South Carolina campaign visit, he had a small handful of protesters outside his event at a Lexington, South Carolina restaurant.

About four men held confederate flags and signs that said "Honk for Dixie" and "The South Does Not Want Fred Thompson."

The men said they were part of the South Carolina League of the South and speaking out against Thompson and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for recent remarks about something dear to their hearts. At the November 28 CNN/YouTube debate, both candidates said they did not believe the Confederate flag should be flown in a public place. The two Republican hopefuls, who are among the leaders in Palmetto State polls, also said the flag wrongfully divides the country.

"When a Southerner goes bad, we call him a scallywag. Thompson's a scallywag - he deserves no respect," Jim Hanks, who identified himself as a registered Independent, said. A scallywag is a white southerner who supported the federal government during Reconstruction. Hanks also said he was interested in Thompson, but now supports Ron Paul.

The group also lashed out at Romney - who called the flag was "divisive" at the debate - for being a "carpetbagger."

"Most people think the flag is a racist symbol. I would say not in South Carolina, we don't. Not in the South, we don't. We don't vote for people that say negative things about the Confederate flag," Don Gordon, a protestor who wore a Confederate flag tie, said.

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[Savonarola]

A scallywag is a white southerner who supported the federal government during Reconstruction.

That's scalawag.

[Doug]

A scallywag is a white southerner who supported the federal government during Reconstruction.

That's scalawag.

DOUG
Maybe not. These are the same morons who brought you "tar," as in "My tar got a flat." And the KKK.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Spelled scalawag, pronouced scallywag. Up until about 50 years ago, "them's fightin' words" - absolutely the nastiest thing you could call/say about another southerner. Along the line of Truman's grandmother, when he showed up all proud in his army uniform pre-WWI, telling him never, ever bring those evil clothes into her house again, worn or carried.

Carpetbaggers are what we are to the Iraqis - strangers who "won the war" (defeated our army) and then showed up to steal anything not nailed down (or in this case, take our oil). Scalawags are the Iraqi folks helping us do it - which is why we really should find some way to get them safely out of Iraq when they stop working for us, beit because we leave or we just don't need them any longer.