The welfare state, the South & independence

Eliminating the destructive welfare state & restoring self-determination 

 

Dr Ralph Raico, an author, historian, free market economist and professor at State University of New York College at Buffalo, spoke at a conference back in 2003 in which he talked about the rise and fall of what we now call Classical Liberalism (though it was once just called liberalism – and still is in much of the world – before Left-wing statists appropriated the popular label in the US for their own cause). Dr Raico, who would almost certainly have been termed a “Copperhead” for his support of the South and the right of secession had he lived in the 1860s, applies his analysis of the decline of freedom and the rise of the welfare/warfare state in the Western World (especially since WWI though the process was underway well before then) to the South. In fact, he argues that Southern secession in 1860-61 was the last serious attempt to check an unlimited US Federal Government, which today recognises no limits on its powers at home and around the globe. He also talks about Southerners’ attempts to limit the Confederate Government in Richmond much as they had tried (and failed) to do to the Federal Government in Washington. Dr Raico discusses the US Federal Government’s conquest of the South and its disregard for Southern life and even for the slaves for whom they claimed to care so much. He goes on to talk about a development of the Western welfare state which its early advocates probably could not have envisioned – this being political correctness, multiculturalism and the destruction of Western people and their replacement with Third World immigrants. He talks about how the welfare state has eliminated references to Dixie and attacked Southern identity as part of this process. Perhaps most interestingly for Southern nationalists, Dr Raico argues that Classical Liberalism can not be restored in the United States and that the modern state can not be limited. Instead, he argues that free and homogeneous (he tackles the very politically-incorrect subject of “diversity” as the welfare state uses the term) communities across the South (and the Occidental world in general) need to be formed where people of similar backgrounds and cultures can govern themselves and preserve their culture, identity and liberty free from a central government or modern state. This is the only way we will survive and achieve freedom, Dr Raico argues.