Garrick Sapp

In January 1956 a New York paper explained interposition to its readers as the doctrine of Jefferson and Madison, used by New England during the War of 1812. No outrage, no evil Southerners. Just the Southern argument stated plainly: “In other words, the Supreme Court is violating the Constitution, not the states which refuse to obey its mandate.” The Daily Item, Port Chester, New York, January 11, 1956

Northerners did not fight to end slavery. Nor did Southerners fight to preserve it. How do we know? They wrote letters! Don't believe the lying historians. "Few Union Soldiers professed to fight for racial equality." What They Fought For, McPherson, 1994

$50 billion in federal coercion to move decisions about hospital locations to Washington. Mississippi and other states are considering surrendering more sovereignty.

Calling the Constitution a compact is not a "theory" by any definition of the word. Article VII, the State conventions, and descriptions of the founders all support compact. The academic label does not fit. Theory fits the nationalist explanation as they must interpret State conventions as a "one people" event.

“In the House of Representatives there is not the substance but the shadow only of representation; which can never produce proper information in the legislature, or inspire confidence in the people.” —George Mason, 1787 That was at 30,000 people to one representative. Now it is >700,000 to one!

1972 Firing Line titled "The Southern Imagination" It was interesting and a bit difficult to watch in places. Even 50 years is enough time for presentism to enable one to be unfair. Talking about the "fusion of the two cultures" William F. Buckley asks, if this means people in Mississippi "will exhibit less of sort of the Confederate syndrome. Will they care less to preserve the home of Jefferson Davis"? Eudora Welty answers, "I mean I'm not a bit interested in preserving the home of Jefferson Davis. Because I'm interested in human beings that are alive and I mean I respect history for what it is. I'm speaking as a worker somebody who likes to write."

"Sen. Barry Goldwater raises his hand with S.C. Senator Strom Thurmond at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Sen. Goldwater is the Republican nominee for President of the United States and Sen. Thurmond, who recently joined the Republican Party, is present to support Goldwater. A Confederate flag is visible in the crowd along with a sign reading Dixie Goes Goldwater."

Booker T. Washington was born a slave and lived through Reconstruction. In Up From Slavery he wrote, “I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced.” Modern historians ignore him.

In 1964 Barry Goldwater told the Senate he found no Constitutional basis for federal regulation of public accommodations or private hiring, and he voted against the Civil Rights Act. Was he the last conservative Republican?