{"id":369179,"date":"2018-07-13T05:17:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dixie-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T05:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T04:17:58","slug":"dixie-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dixie-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question\u2014most likely because they would deem the issue to be absurd. But is it inane to ask such a question\u2014is it forbidden in politically correct America to ask such a \u201cconfrontational\u201d question? Conservatives would immediately dismiss such rhetorical questions as being unpatriotic or even treasonous\u2014after all, everyone knows we live in \u201cone nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.\u201d Liberals, on the other hand, would immediately dismiss the question by repeating two words\u2014slavery, racist, slavery, racist, etc., etc., etc. Despite the soft-censorship efforts of both left and right to limit free discussion, the question will be asked!<\/p>\n<p>What are the hallmarks of a captive nation?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbevilleinstitute.org\/blog\/is-dixie-a-captive-nation\/?mc_cid=ef171c5f64&amp;mc_eid=3237affcbf#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0What are the features captive nations share that distinguish them from sovereign nations? I can think of at least seven features which current captive nations share with other captive nations in modern history:<\/p>\n<p><em>First<\/em>: The captive nation\u2019s former military forces were defeated by the invading nation\u2019s military. From now on, the invading nation will be referred to as the \u201cEmpire\u201d because most, but not all, captive nations were\/are victims of Empires, such as captive nations held by the former Soviet, Nazi, Japanese, and British Empires.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals and most conservatives will immediately dismiss the question based upon their assertion that the South is not a captive nation because it was never a nation and therefore, by definition, cannot be a captive nation. What are the parameters of a nation? Did the South measure up to the description of a nation from 1861 to 1865?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/South-Right-James-Ronald-Kennedy\/dp\/1565540247?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1565540247\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51CiFuEvyhL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/South-Right-James-Ronald-Kennedy\/dp\/1565540247?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1565540247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The South Was Right!<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">James Ronald Kennedy, &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$6.18<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/07\/no_author\/is-dixie-a-captive-nation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question\u2014most likely because they would deem the issue to be absurd. But is it inane to ask such a question\u2014is it forbidden in politically correct America to ask such a \u201cconfrontational\u201d question? Conservatives would immediately dismiss such rhetorical questions as being unpatriotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}