The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 21, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Confederation of Dixie’s choice of Governor Freemon to act as President started a tradition that became stronger than mere law. He chose his hometown of Lexington to act as his capital, and the next President moved the capital to his hometown. Every President since has picked a new capital, and it has almost always their own hometown. The two rules are that it cannot be a State capital, and it cannot have been a Confederation capital in the past. The Confederation has no intention of allowing a massive bureaucratic state to grow up around a permanent capital and poison it to all rationality and reason as happened to Washington D.C. in the past. There are obvious drawbacks to the practice, but the Confederation of Dixie has managed to prosper and grow despite them. And it has kept the small government it wants.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The early Confederation lacked any kind of central Federal structure. The member States did not want to replace the former Federal government with a new version of the same thing, so they selected one of the State Governors to act as President of the Confederation. They chose Governor John Jefferson Freemon of Virginia, and the Virginia Defense Force became the closest thing they had to a Confederation army in the years that followed. Just as Lexington became the effective capital. He retired in time, and the Governor of Florida became the new Confederation President. Florida provided the core of the Confederation army, and a new temporary capital. By the time that Governor retired, each Member State of the Confederation was expected to provide a single regiment to fill out the Confederation Army, and a new town to govern from when their time came.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Confederation of Dixie’s formation was not quick or seamless. It was not planned, and had no central authority bringing it together. Representatives of States all over the American South East simply visited Lexington and talked to whoever showed up there. And one by one, they began to advocate for joining forces against Federal oppression. West Virginia was first to announce they were partnering with Virginia in such a venture, and others signed up on their own in the following months. Some waited years to join. Florida was actually the last of the original States to join, nearly ten years after the Second Great Depression ended. And they did not even adopt the Confederation of Dixie name until three years after that. It was a very slow and spastic growth to becoming one of the major American State alliances.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Everything that happened in Virginia, from the arrests to the attempted nuclear bombardment, showed everybody what they had to lose. Which is why it was so important that West Virginia quickly announced their support for the Petersburg Assembly’s government. North Caroline, Tennessee, and Kentucky followed shortly thereafter. Over a dozen States recognized them within the week, and more followed in the weeks after that. By the time Convention of States met, it was Governor Freemon they welcomed as the official representative of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Richmond government protested that inclusion, and it is one of the many historical objections raised that question the legality of the Convention of States. But the Convention was clear on who it wanted to hear from, and who they considered the legitimate Commonwealth government.

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Tax Day

by on May 17, 2021 at 12:01 am
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It’s Tax Day in the United States of America, so I thought I would create a poem saying how much we love it.

You love Tax Day,
I love Tax Day,
We all love…

Oh, who am I kidding? We all hate it. It reminds us of how much the government takes from us every year. And most of us don’t want to think about that more than we have to. But we should. We should all ask ourselves if what the government does is worth what they take from us, and Tax Day is a good day to do that…

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