The Southern Party position regarding hate groups and the misuse of our national symbol of Southern sovereignty, the Confederate Flag

      The Third National Flag of the CSA that you see displayed here is the official national flag of the Confederate States of America as adopted by an act of the Confederate States Congress on 4 March 1865.  It incorporates in its design the world-famous St. Andrew's Cross Confederate Battle Flag -- the most instantly and widely recognized symbol of Southern sovereignty, valor and independence.

The flag is historically significant as the last official national flag of Dixie to have been adopted by the independent government of a free, Southern republic.  It is also significant because it was adopted after the CSA Congress passed a law in February of 1865 authorizing the official enlistment of black Southerners into the Confederate armed forces as soldiers - an act that meant the de facto end of slavery as a necessary measure to secure independence for Dixie.  For this reason, we believe it to be a symbol that all Southerners should be able to embrace and support as our national symbol of independence and freedom.

The leaders of the Southern Party are often asked if our affinity for the Confederate national symbols of Southern sovereignty is also indicative of an attitude of racial malice towards people of non-European origin or religious bigotry towards people of non-Christian faiths.

The simple answer is a firm "NO."

We are deeply saddened that so many people currently define our Southern national symbols in such negative terms.  We believe that this is principally due to the constant barrage of negative propaganda aimed at the symbols of the Southland by the news media, left-wing agitators and the entertainment industry - all of which have helped define a popular culture that reviles the traditions and symbols of the Southland.

The Southern Party also believes that no small share of the blame attaches to the abuse of our Southern banners by despicable hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan.  The Southern Party denounces these groups and rejects their attempt to pervert the symbols of Southern freedom and valor into symbols of racial malice.

We wish for our visitors and potential supporters to understand that the Southern Party proudly displays the Confederate flags of our ancestors solely to symbolize our desire to re-establish the Southern nation as a free and independent Confederacy of sovereign States and to protect and defend the traditional culture of the South.  If you share our vision to achieve this honorable goal then we urge you to join the Southern Party today.

The Southern Party believes that as more and more decent, God-fearing, Southerners once more display the flag in a positive way, the unfair stigma of racial malice will fade away.  In the interim, we realize that to some people, the flag of the South will continue to be regarded as a symbol of racial and religious animosity.  While it is certainly true that some have misused this banner to promote ignoble causes like racial malice and anti-Semitism in the past, the same can be said of the U.S. flag and the Christian cross, yet no one will seriously argue that they are hate symbols simply because a few extremists misuse them from time to time.  If fairness will allow us to acknowledge that those symbols have meanings that transcend their use by racial and religious bigots, then the same courtesy must be extended to the premier symbol of the Southland, the Confederate flag.

Sadly, this almost never happens because the flag of Dixie stands as a powerful symbol of opposition to the tyranny of the majority and centralized government.  This "politically incorrect" symbolism is something that modern day liberals cannot tolerate - thus the campaign of denigration.   It has been the experience of the Southern Party that those who strive to re-cast the Confederate flag as a "hate symbol" are inevitably motivated either by historical ignorance or by pure, unadulterated malice towards the South, its symbols, its heritage and its people.

The Southern Party steadfastly rejects the crass bigotry that drives this ceaseless campaign of cultural genocide against the revered, historic, symbols of Dixie's national sovereignty.  We rightly resent and resist the politically correct fascism that demands that we acquiesce in the destruction of our own culture.  Therefore, we will continue to display Confederate flags - especially the 3rd National Flag - and we will redouble our efforts to educate the public as to the true history of the South and the authentic symbolism of our venerable flag.