Southern Purge Targets Military Bases, “Gone With the Wind”

By Todd Starnes

As I predicted earlier this week – the cultural purging of the South is well under way. In the past few days, we’ve seen the cultural revolutionaries demand the eradication of streets, parks, schools and buildings named after Confederate war heroes.

We’ve also seen corporate America engage in the cultural cleansing – banning all Confederate products from places like Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Sears.

But the purging is far from over.

Now, the revolutionaries are now targeting US military bases named after Confederate war heroes.

A reader sent me a screenshot of an item that was posted by officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. bragg

“Okay, evidently there are groups requesting the Army change the names of its installations that are named after soldiers that ended up serving in the Confederate Army,” the statement read. “We’re interested in what you would rename Fort Bragg.”

The Fort was named after Major Braxton Bragg, a North Carolina native and general in the Confederate Army.

Fort Bragg said they would pick three choices and send them to the Pentagon.

“Have fun and good luck,” they wrote.

Well, it turns out most folks around Fort Bragg were not interested in having fun. The outrage over possibly renaming the Fort was so massive, they removed the Facebook message.

“What the hell is wrong with you people,” one reader wrote. “Did you know you have soldiers, civilian workers and their families who are from the South, some of whom are very proud of their southern heritage?”

“Shame on you, Fort Bragg PC police,” another wrote.

Stars & Stripes reports there are at least 10 installations named after Confederate generals — and according to their online poll an overwhelming majority don’t want the names changed.

And neither does the Army.

Stars & Stripes reports the Army will not rename any of their bases.

“Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost said in a statement. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”

Meanwhile, Lou Lumenick, the film critic for the New York Post, wants to banish “Gone With the Wind.”

“The more subtle racism of ‘Gone with the Wind’ is in some ways more insidious, going to great lengths to enshrine the myth that the Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery – an institution the film unabashedly romanticizes,” he wrote.

Lumenick, a northerner, called for the beloved film to be stuffed in a museum “where this much-loved, but undeniably racist, artifact really belongs.”

I wonder how Lou feels about “Blazing Saddles” and “Forrest Gump”?

In recent days, monuments and memorials have been destroyed or desecrated, works of art threatened with censorship and those who dare affirm Southern heritage are labeled racists, or worse.

What a troubling time in America.

I am a native son of Tennessee. My forefathers fought in the Civil War. One of my great, great, great grandfathers was killed at Reams Station, Virginia. Another was killed defending Richmond. Many others fought and died for the Confederacy. My people did not own slaves. They were farmers.

I am proud to call myself American by birth, but Southern by the Grace of God. I am proud of my heritage.

And if you’ve got a problem with that – well — in the words of Rhett Butler — frankly my dear…

I did a little research on my Gr. Gr. Grandfather, Asbury Wiley Jackson tonight. I had long known he & 136 of his fellow soldiers died of dysentery in Knoxville in 1862, but I found out a lot more about his regiment.

He originally left his farm & walked 70 miles from Muscadine, AL to (now) Kennesaw, GA to be a part of the all volunteer GA 40th Regiment. He was in Company A, from Paulding County, Ga, just a few miles from here, where the Jackson's had originally settled in GA.

Of the 7,000 original soldiers, only 400 remained at the end of the war.

They went on to fight at Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign, before surrendering to Sherman in Durham, ending the war.

In all, they had marched over 5,000 miles ...

sure am glad man invented the automobile

Like it or not the civil war and slavery is part of American History. We all need to remember what Lincoln said:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

Jet they don't make them like your GG Grandfather any more. 5000 miles in a wool uniform in southern heat and humidity. 🌫

The only difference between "Southern Heritage" and "German Heritage" is the Germans have the decency to be ashamed of the Holocaust.

BW ... Only 400 of the original 7,000 made the 5,000 mile hike.

Mine left Muscadine, AL for Kennesaw, GA, then up to Knoxville, TN, then up to the TN/KY border for a brief skirmish, then back down to Knoxville where he and 136 others died of dysentery.

The rest of the GA 40th did see some major action, though . . .

Another master-baiter.

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I wonder if the offended government workers in the Sip will be upset when they have to work on Confederate Memorial Day.

If they remove the Flag, they should also lose a Holiday!!!

Well at least they still have himmler day.

Save this thread.....Mattie B called it.


The will be an uprising of the crazies.

I was having lunch yesterday and could overhear some of the conversations.

Between the Flag and the Gay marriage, some rednecks are losing their minds!!!!!

Noted and seconded.

Exactly what the control freaks want, another excuse to reduce freedom.

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Being born in Yankee land, the whole rebel thing never meant much to me.

And I still don't get it. These who fought in the war are all long gone. The reasons for the war long past.
Now I'm sure just like any war both sides had their reasons and God was on their side. But it is over and a sad chapter closed. Now I think reminders of our Heritage and history are right and fine things. But a state flying a rebel flag? What is the message? "The north kicked my granddad's a$$ and we're never gonna let it go"? These peeps need to move along. It's the 21st century - that was the 19th.

It's like when I see some punk wearing a swastika. I always ask myself if he want to be known as a loser. Or just stupid. Because if he really wants to be a Nazi, he should be smart enough not to advertise it.

Ok, here is how it works. If You lose a war you take down your flag, let the U.S. rebuild you, and then sell us cars.

One man's trouble is another person's celebration...


...and the Japanese cars I've owned have been better than the American ones...

Is that a real thing? do you guys also have a day where you celebrate the loser of the most recent super bowl?

Yes, it's a very real holiday.

I'm not sure which, but several Southern States observe it as a State holiday.

I'm guessing the same states that don't recognize MLK day...

It is not the history of the civil war that should be at risk. The problem with the rebel flag began in the early 60's when it began being used by anti-segregationists.

Well Opel you would guess wrong.

MS observes MLK day. Which is ironically also Robert E. Lee Day

That's Bobby Lee according to Fletch.

Wasn't AZ the last hold out on mlk until the nfl money trumped their integrity?

This whole thing isn't about any "one" issue ... Certainly it was flown in the 50's-60's to protest civil rights, and it has long flown as a memorial to the fallen. But what many don't understand why it was celebrated on shows like the Dukes of Hazzard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. is the spirit of rebellion, or thumbing your nose at authority, big government, etcetera. Which, was an original intent of the war.

Yes, slavery was a "part" of the reasons, but you can go back to the 1820's to find root causes of the war. Which was the northern states dictating to the southern states demanding tariffs & trade rules, etc. Southern States believed in the U.S. constitution that all States were separate & individual States, not the all inclusive government that the northern states were visioning. So with 1776 so fresh in their minds, they rightly felt their break from an all powerful federal government. Now these are just bullet points on a very deep & complicated subject that is fascinating still to this day to study.

But getting back to why Bubba has the old 1956 GA State flag flying in his yard, it isn't about slavery, but a spirit of independence. As in, don't you tell me what to do. As in, leave me alone to live free. As in, when Victor & thousands others that talk **** about the South, it's Bubba's way of giving them the finger. Like the great Lewis Grizzard once said. "Y'all Yankees want to come down here? Great !! Come on down. Buy our land. Marry our women. That's fine, but we only ask one thing. We Don't Want to Know How you Used to do it in Cleveland. Because We Don't Care!!"

And by the way, you can drive all over this State and find many Giant, and I do mean Huge, Confederate Flags flying.