The Confederation of Dixie

by on April 9, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Commonwealth of Virginia changed forever when the eastern counties helped Washington D.C. arrest the former Vice President and his family. The change could not be reversed after the former Second Lady disappeared and the Lexington Gazette fought all attempts to silence it to get the word out. Lexington, Virginia was soon the center of public protests against those actions. And it was in Lexington that the smoldering conflict between east and west exploded into a conflict none of them could take back. The Federal and Commonwealth governments sent law enforcement officers with orders to silence the protests. They used jammers to cut off network access, and then moved in to arrest the protesters. The protesters did not cooperate, and one of the Feds used lethal force to subdue an elderly couple. The other protesters did not take well to that.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on April 8, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Most people did not know it at the time, but the Commonwealth of Virginia as it had existed died the day the Lexington Gazette printed the front page article “Where is Ruby Freemon?” She was not a native of Lexington, but her husband was, and he was one of their favorite doctors. The fact that he had been elected Vice President was a matter of pride. His arrest by the new President angered them. The disappearance of Ruby enraged them. The Gazette’s total suppression on nearly all public networks turned that into a cold hatred. They shifted to old style paper and private virtual networks to get the word out, and they soon became the newspaper of record when it came to any news about Ruby. Their broadsheets spread far and wide all over America via hidden distribution channels. Everybody knew their name and their message, even if few dared to repeat their words in public.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on April 7, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Commonwealth of Virginia did not lose all federal funding as most American States did during the Second Great Depression. They were Washington D.C.’s closest neighbor, and many who worked in Washington lived in Virginia. So they continued to receive some funding, even if it was greatly reduced. They still had to make many painful spending cuts though, and most of them happened in the western or central counties. Virginia focused the vast majority of their remaining budget on the eastern counties, and used that to maintain services and order in those regions. Their primary interaction with the western counties was through law enforcement convoys sent into “enemy territory” to arrest political foes. Once again, this was not enough to truly break Virginia, but they further polished the paving stones of fate towards that once-unlikely outcome.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on April 6, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Commonwealth of Virginia fell into chaos during the Second Great Depression, along with many national governments all over the globe. Their collapse was worse than many in that it revealed a long standing civil war between the eastern and western counties that had gone very cold over the last several decades. The eastern counties and the capital city had effectively become an expansion region of Washington D.C. and fully adopted Washington politics as their own. The western counties hated Washington politics with a cold fury, and the other counties fervently wished the two extremes could just get along and stop antagonizing the other. The arrest of the former Vice President was not a bridge too far for them, but it was one of many paving stones towards it that the eastern counties gleefully placed and polished to a gleaming hue.

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Will the Real Jim Crow Please Stand Up?

by on April 5, 2021 at 12:01 am
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There appears to be some confusion in our political process when it comes to the Jim Crow laws. So will the real Jim Crow please stand up? See, there were laws passed in some areas that encoded the idea that society had to be separated through the use of racial segregation. No mixed race schools or public buildings, black and white public water fountains, and of course black men could not sit down at a lunch counter in a white neighborhood and order a burger. And poll taxes and literacy tests were used to stop black people from voting. They were most common in the old Democrat South, until fifty or so years ago, when the Civil Rights Movement marched in peaceful protest against them on national TV. By the time I grew up, some twenty years later, they had been all but forgotten, remembered only as an evil that should never be repeated. That is the real Jim Crow. Never Forget it.

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