Morning Huck

Neo-Confederate Huckabee supporter Ron Wilson, another fine Christian white man

Well, it's still morning on the West Coast!

Between the Huck's campaign and Ron Paul's, we're getting more much daylight than we normally have shining into some of the darker corners of the American radical right. The People for the American Way's blog Right Wing Watch gives a brief profile of the Neo-Confederate Behind Pro-Huckabee Flag Ads in South Carolina 01/18/08.

The Huck defended his position on the South Carolina Confederate state flag by resorting to the anal imagery of which he sees to be so fond, saying, "In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do". Technically, implied anal imagery.

Wilson has participated with a number of neo-Confederate groups, including the white supremacist League of the South and the Council of Conservative Citizens, the latter being the present-day name of the White Citizens Council, which was the most significant overtly white-supremacist group in Mississippi during the civil rights battle of the 1950s and 1960s. Wilson also participated in the white supremacist takeover of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2000, which had previously been a stodgy group of Confederate romantics rather than racist activists.

Brother Huck's Presidential campaign has been providing abundant reminders of what the late Steve Gilliard always said, which is that we seriously misunderstand the Christian Right if we don't remember that it is largely synonymous with white folks who don't much like black people. More than a little of Christian Right ideology is old-line segregationist thinking.

Tags: authoritarianism, christian dominionism, christian fundamentalism, christian right, council of conservative citizens, mike huckabee, neo-confederates, neosegregation, racism, sons of confederate verterans, white citizens council

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