Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴

Southern Honor, Hierarchy and Heritage | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

I am going to layout quickly my goal and aim with this account.

The first and primary goal is to spread what I call the 'Dixon Project', which is my strategy as to how to politically and culturally organize to help spread and revitalize Southern identity with the aims of gaining Southern political and economic autonomy. This project is comprehensive and (as of now) is in the writing stage; when it releases, I hope to spread it around the Southern community here online - as, in my theory, online organization is the starting point in the modern day.

The other part of my goal for this account is spreading relevant theory and interests for the cause of Southern identity - this includes navigating modern politics, modern culture and society in general. Each man should be able to have his own opinions, but I do want to provide a more researched and specifically Southern-interested position.

The last part is just posting about Confederate heritage and legacy, as well as talking about and informing about antebellum Southern culture. Importantly, I want to document Southern values which I believe to be necessary for the modern Southern man to embody (mainly regarding honor).

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@RefCathAmerican @tom_barmadillo And I have even better news

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@ren_revenant Dwight Yaokam is one of my favorites and I like him more than George Strait — not to mention he is from the homeland (Kentucky)

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

My favorite genre of American literature is niche biographies and political commentaries on Americans from the Antebellum period. If there is any cause to believe we have declined as a country is the fact that American men don't have a library filled with these types of books.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

The Huguenots are among the many peoples who contributed to what has become of the South; we must honor and remember all of those who helped to form this great land.

[Abbeville Institute @AbbevilleInst]

French Huguenots in Dixie. Link ⬇️

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George Strait Nationalism

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@john_st_helen @billgoldwater Quite interesting results — I do wish there was better immigration policy options

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@john_st_helen I did and I’ll be moving back next year.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

One of the more underappreciated aspects of culture, and heritage, in the South is the old Spanish Colonial era in Nueva España - especially in Texas and Florida. Having lived in San Antonio, one of my favorite aspects of it was the architecture of the Alamo and the history of the cultural transmission from the Spanish vaqueros to the Anglo-Saxon cowboys.

I personally support a recognition of the Spanish origins of parts of our Southern culture; I also would like to see the old Spanish culture and heritage be revived by the Hispanic communities in Texas, which you do see, but you also see plenty of "edgars," and culturally distant Hispanics (especially if they aren't from Northern Mexico).

By no means is this an endorsement of the mass immigration coming from Latin American countries, that is not what I'm trying to get at here. What I am getting at is that Hispanics do have a role in the history of the South, and especially in Texas and Florida, and that we should honor that in the same way we ought to honor the French contributions to our culture and history.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

I agree in a way, but I don’t believe we need to physically “branch out.” If the Southern states are on the same agenda, there is a shit ton of leverage there — we can basically form a firewall in the House and Senate. The goal is that the South becomes a governmental firewall in Federal LE, Military high command and the three branches of government.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

I should make this clear as to my view on this matter.

Firstly, I want to say that I understand the secessionist spirit; our ancestors thought it best for the South to secede in the 1860s and we are yet again at a very contentious period in American history and especially Southern history. Never before has the South been so offended, disrespected and disenfranchised as it has now.

But I also want to say that we would only be bottle-necking ourselves if we were independent, and that is assuming we would even be able to gain independence. The American Empire was only able to reach the greatness it did by having the backbone of Dixie, and the future of America will similarly be up to whether the South can revive itself. America will fall if it has no spine, it cannot all be one imperial mono-culture.

So it is my goal that the South models itself more after Quebec than a separatist state. What I want is for the South to have more political, economic and cultural autonomy from D.C., but also for it to be the spine which allows for America to go on another 250 years and to reach heights not yet seen.

[TheUnclaimedOne @OneUnclaimed]

@JohnathanRheb Bet. The sooner we can separate ourselves from DC, the sooner we can prosper again

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@legitleavitt It’s our God given Scotch-Irish tradition

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@ColChristendom I do apologize with the vagueness here, but the specifics are coming out soon; to give an easy idea, it is akin to Gramsci's "Long March," but is a development off of it.

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A New-Old South

Honor was the primary value south of the Mason-Dixon in the days of our forefathers, especially in the Antebellum South. Bertram Wyatt-Brown in his book 'Southern Honor' detailed exactly this culture - explaining that it takes its origins in pre-Christian European values and customs, but then, laid upon it, is a Protestant Christian frame. But there was notably two natures of the honor culture: gentility and primal honor.

Gentility, as defined by Wyatt-Brown, can be summed up as sociability, learning and piety. Sociability is arguably the most important value here; it is all about hospitality (the old 'Southern hospitality' cliché), i.e., being kind and open to others, holding open doors, being a gentlemen to women and not using harsh language in public (and especially around children or women). The tension with this, however, is that there becomes little room for intellectual culture and solitude for study - which was Wyatt-Brown's argument here. The problem of the Old South was thus a false idea, or rather a very accentuated idea, of what it meant to be a man; this can be seen in the next value: learning.

Learning in the Old South was almost purely status, not genuine cultivation of intellect. To know a reference to a part of Homer was to show a level of status, not to genuinely engage with the work itself. Schooling and intellectualism just plainly was not taken seriously, or not to the degree it should've been. The school schedule was built around seasons to show true "manliness," like in hunting, instead of the first priority being teaching a new generation of Southerners; I am not saying here, by the way, that hunting, shooting or other such activities aren't actually manly - they are, but if we are going to get anything done in the 21st century, Southerners need to recognize that we need to seize the opportunity to be the intellectuals of heritage America and the new Conservatism of our age. However, in the Old South, there was a seeming patch to this problem, and that was in Aristotle's 'megalopsychia', or greatness of soul. But this was, unfortunately, mostly theoretical, and the idea that self-worth ought to track internal merit as opposed to just public perception wasn't taken to heart by a large majority of the Old South. But here too is where we need to develop ourselves by the failures of our ancestors; we must have two senses of honor: internal and external. To be worthy to yourself, to strengthen your mind and your personal relationship to God, and to also be worthy and respectable on the outside - this is the ideal and what we must strive to become.

Piety is one value which came relatively late to the Old South, largely because the Colonial South was based more on Stoic self-regard as opposed to Christian guilt. It is thus that for the South, especially in the 18th century and before, was more based around shame (public-facing); a shift started after the Second Great Awakening, where Southerners started to be more based around guilt (private-facing). The great synthesis of this, and the one who modern Southerners should model ourselves after, is the great and honorable General Robert E. Lee. Lee was a prayer-centered and devout Episcopalian Christian and he was also a Southern gentlemen, who himself was very humble and honorable. Lee carried an ideal of restraint; he gave the same exact treatment to his own nephew, Fitz Lee, when he was court-martialed and also refused to give his son an easy commission.

“A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.” - Robert E. Lee

Primal honor is worth which is entirely measured outside of yourself; it is proven via courage, braveness and readiness to answer harm with harm (eye for a eye). You are judged by the community, not by yourself - your worth is your reputation. To this type of honor, there exists five aspects: valor, reputation, physicality, masculinity and oaths.

Valor is the most primary value of primal honor; it is the principle that courage only counts when it is demonstrated through willingness to hold to 'an eye for an eye' - or the idea that you would physically, through harm, defend or fight for your kinfolk or community. The origins of this is found in Homer and in Beowulf; it can be seen notably with the likes of President Andrew Jackson. Jackson in his 1812 letter about Creek attacks makes retaliation not a strategy of foreign policy, but rather a vengeance against them for the shame of the original attacks, so as to regain honorable standing. The point here is that Southern valor was not consequentialist, it was a matter of the nature of the response given - as to whether it was honorable or not. This was seen in the Civil War where Confederate generals would push beyond the point of tactical logic as retreat of failure would be a failure of ethics and honor. It is thus clear the natural problem, or tension, caused by this, as it were proven during the Civil War, is that this escalates. During the Queen Anne's War a militia from Massachusetts returned from a failed campaign and they got pots dumped on them for returning after loss instead of continuing the fight. But the important thing about valor is that it allows for a mutual sense of guaranteed protection and loyalty; men know that their fellow soldiers will always come to their side, even if it is inconvenient. What this means is that what we need in the modern day is an ability to deescalate; for this, what there needs to be is legitimate and honorable options besides the most courageous option of no-compromise loyalty, i.e., formal apology, settlements, third-party arbitration or legal recourse, all of which being on a ranked scale of appropriate response (depending on the situation).

Reputation was your own self-worth; your worth was not defined by your own inner value, not your own personal sense of your value, but rather was entirely defined by the opinion of others on you. I have already talked about this earlier in this post, but I'll repeat the main point: we must be able to hold ourselves to God, to ourselves and to the community. To be respectable, you cannot just merely show respect, but you have to respect yourself and be internally coherent enough to be respectable for another person to judge you. You wear nice clothes out to show respect to your own worth and to show the community that you deserve respect and that you give it back.

Physicality was one of the better signs, upon first looks, to tell of an individual's inner merit. If you are unhealthy, if you are unfit, if you are fat, what does that say about your character? It says that you don't respect yourself, you don't respect your community and you aren't able to commit to even keeping your body healthy. A king who is a 6ft tall beast of a man is far more commanding then one who is 5ft tall; looks matters, maybe not as a determinant, but at the very least as a major factor. Here is something where we need to embody this. You are a book and the cover is your body - people see that cover first and will make judgements about the contents. This is also a matter of inner honor; you have to be respectable to yourself, and a lot of that is how you treat your body and health.

Masculinity and gender relations were a major, and almost paradoxical, aspect to the Old South. Women were highly revered and similarly feared; a woman's conduct was the one thing which was able to lose a man's standing despite no misconduct of his own. For example, if a married woman cheated on her husband, her husband's honor would be something to lose due to him being cucked. It was thus that there wasn't just great courtesy and protection of women, but also a very high loyalty and vengeance for women if they were wronged. This creates an interesting dynamic, one that ensures patriarchy but also great power in the hands of women - one which I believe can be transported to the modern day with some success, and one which also can help solve the horribly dysfunctional sexual relations of the modern day.

Oath-taking was a structural aspect of the Old South, as it served to create strong bonds with those outside of your family; oaths thus simulate the blood-bond one has to their kin. What makes oaths work is there being a consequence to them; if a oath is merely ritual and no substance, then there is no bond there - this is why even though many Confederate veterans swore to the Union, many privately didn't consider it binding, mainly because it wasn't. In our modern day, people are very atomized and communities are dispersed, it is thus that oaths are more important than ever. We need to take oaths to swear loyalty to the Southern cause and to the community who supports it and if someone breaks that loyalty, there should be a consequential social response by the community - it should serve as breaking from your family; you can't just leave your family easily, there is going to be some consequences.

All of this matters for knowing and taking into account what we need to take from our ancestors, what we need to leave and what we need to add, for the sake of creating a new Southern honor culture, one which can guide Southerners through the 21st century and regain our identity.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

Once the initial project is finished, i.e., once I finish the "manifesto," is when I can really start to measure any "success." As far as what I hope for that to look like in the short term, I want to see more and more people in our sphere (the Southern community on X) to begin to support and practice the strategy of my project (which will be coming out soon) - which is mainly founded in a decentralized spreading of a specific identity and consciousness tied to that. Basically, what I want to see is Southerners consciously going forth with a strategy to gaining influence and power - again, what that strategy is will be laid out completely in an article which I am currently writing.

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@Angluckian I go to a REC church

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

Absolutely, and this gets into a thesis I've been working on which I dub "e-communitarianism." The core idea is that culture and social organization is influenced and carved by material conditions, and that with the digital revolution it has changed the conditions to where atomization is embraced and roots are uplifted - this is the dissolution stage. But with the internet has also come an up-rise in new communities, largely based on specific interests (we ourselves are part of this); internet communities generally begin to form their own subcultures and a sense of belonging within that community. My theory is that these communities tend to materialize - people begin to meet up, friendships are formed and there are community events (e.g., anime conventions). This trend combined with automation of all industry and people not working (as much, or at all) can cause a reconstitution stage, which results in these communities, especially those founded on previously rooted causes (our community being one of these), can begin to reform new roots and new forms.

This is a very rough explanation of my theory, and I will be writing a much more extended and comprehensive theory on it in a future article and it will also be a major part of my "Dixon Project."

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@Angluckian I do want to come back and say that I think we ought to steal the name "Episcopalian" and the Church's flag, as both are inherently tied to American history, especially Southern history.

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@Angluckian As an “inquirer” to Anglicanism, I’ve been to both ANCA and Episcopal Churches, and I honestly see no reason to be Episcopalian given the existence of the ANCA.

[Ghost in the Valley @vlly_ghst_rtrns]

Guerilla partisans in WV. Overlooked part of the civil war

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@ayy_cuh_88 https://t.co/P8AH1MvTU2

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@MattNellans I hate all the people who are trying to ruin this country and the South; but we cannot found our cause, nor our meaning, in hatred. We must find the source of our cause in what is honest and true — and that is our heritage. We hate because we love our heritage.

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Heritage, not Hate.

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@ARCannon4658 https://t.co/P8AH1MvTU2

[Johnathan R. 🇺🇸🇸🇴 @JohnathanRheb]

@MattNellans I hate all the people who are trying to ruin this country and the South; but we cannot found our cause, nor our meaning, in hatred. We must find the source of our cause in what is honest and true — and that is our heritage. We hate because we love our heritage.