Establishment paper publishes anti-Southern writer
Imagine if an openly pro-Southern writer penned an article about the war in the Times. Well, that would be unthinkable. But if the unthinkable happened surely we would hear comments like “Why are they still fighting the war?” Yet, when a Yankee partisan writes a piece that does nothing but attack the South repeatedly all is okay. Why are Yankees so obsessed with defending their invasion of another people, another culture and another government? Precisely because it was an invasion. It takes constant revisionism, excuses and attacks on the enemy (and make no mistake, the traditional South is just as much “the enemy” today – and is treated as such – as it was in 1861) to maintain support for Northern imperialism. If the attacks on the South were ever to stop, the truth would eventually win out and a majority would come to understand the Northern invasion and conquest of Dixie for what it was – with all the implications for the present that this would entail. Once upon a time, the anti-Southern attacks focused around allegations of treason. Today, they generally are focused around “racial justice” and the myths and Leftist politics surrounding that subject. This is Blight’s modis operandi. He makes a living attacking the White Southerner in particular and probably is a true believer in the Yankee righteousness of his crusade.
Blight champions the North in every paragraph throughout his article and misses no opportunities to insult the South and make it appear that racial divisions only existed below the Mason-Dixon line. Indeed, he returns to race again and again. Blight clearly reveals his Northern partisanship and opposition to Southern heritage in the following passage:
In the South, Memorial Day was a means of confronting the Confederacy’s defeat but without repudiating its cause. Some Southern orators stressed Christian notions of noble sacrifice. Others, however, used the ritual for Confederate vindication and renewed assertions of white supremacy. Blacks had a place in this Confederate narrative, but only as time-warped loyal slaves who were supposed to remain frozen in the past.
The Lost Cause tradition thrived in Confederate Memorial Day rhetoric; the Southern dead were honored as the true “patriots,” defenders of their homeland, sovereign rights, a natural racial order and a “cause” that had been overwhelmed by “numbers and resources” but never defeated on battlefields.
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Not too many years ago in the county where I was born, summer morning mists would hang over acres and acres of tobacco, a crop we have been raising for almost four centuries. Today, however, because most of our farmers have taken a government buy-out, it is, sadly, a surprise to come across a field topping out along a back road in August. If there is anything I associate more with my country upbringing and Southern heritage than the gummy weed so despised by anti-smoking crusaders, it would have to be that other staple of Southern agriculture, the hog. 
To them hog killing was a big event. Family came to help; and also Agnes, the woman who had taken care of us children over the years and who was given to the telling of ancient and quite often gruesome tall tales. Until late into the night everyone sat around a large table in the kitchen cutting up the meat. It fell to my mother to prepare the country sausage, and she took great care in seasoning this delicacy, adding just the right amount of red pepper and sage and expertly twisting the plumped up casings into the links that would hang from tobacco sticks in the unctuous chill of a December meathouse. In the spring, we would take down from the rafters a moldy Easter ham and scrub it off, stuffing it with greens and onions and boiling it in a pillowcase for the holiday dinner.