This usually looks like death through starvation or war or disease.

The South is the poorest region of the US, due to the Yankees plundering out wealth and redistributing it to Wal Street billionaires. Millions of our children starve so some rich Yankee can own five mansions.

We're definitely in a war of propaganda; the Yanks try to slander our culture and way of life by any means they can.

The South is also the region most prone to disease, especially in the wetlands. That's less of an issue now, due to modern technology, but we still have it harder.

Maybe the Civil War could have been a strong selection event.

The civil war, and the genocide that ensued until the present day. We've had to fight an uphill battle not only to preserve our culture, but to survive in a land plundered by our colonial overlords. In Dixie, only the strong survive.

But generally southern agrarians of the last few centuries have not had a super harsh climate to contend with. Think of this in the context of hunter gatherers surviving the frozen tundras of Eurasia where there is essentially no food for 6 months out of the year except for big game. People who did’t organize well and didn’t plan ahead died in big numbers every year for around 50,000 years.

There are very few places left on Earth that are that harsh, relegated to rainforests and deserts — and even they may not be as harsh. Not many people actually live in those areas, anyways.

The south has had continuous immigration for hundreds of years and the people have generally not intermixed.

There's been a lot of mixing between various European groups, and between the Europeans and Natives, but segregation kept Blacks separate from the other races for about a century — which is why they have their own flavor of Dixie culture.

If they did and remained genetically isolated, and their economy remained the same, you would definitely see a set of unique common behaviors emerge eventually.

We do have a lot of common behaviors, like language and food. There are a lot of differences, but there are more similarities — especially when contrasted with the Yankees.

I think in a place like the south you have whites and blacks and now latinos still living out old strategies and following different sets of rules which is why they keep clashing.

Those "different sets of rules" have been unnaturally sustained long after segregation's end, in order to maintain the racial division that has for so long benefited the North.

Can you impose a common set of rules (which is part of an environment) and evetually get everyone to evolve to follow those rules and cooperate

If we can unite against the Yankee empire under the banner of Dixie Nationalism: it can be achieved — but that would be a struggle in of itself, as the mutual animosity between our People has been cultivated for centuries. We'd need a strong leader who can bring us together based on our similarities, instead of dividing us along our differences.

That is what they tried to do with Christianity.

That's an interesting point, as the vast majority of people in Dixie are Baptists, but very few outside of it are. There are currently two currents of Baptism, separated only by race; I see the fusion of these currents as vital to Dixie unification. Don't get me wrong, I ain't some hyper-religious theocrat, but I'd be naive to downplay religion's influence on culture.

Each will have to sacrifice instrinsic behaviors to their group.

Yes, but there are hundreds of different sub-groups in Dixie, each with their own flavor of Southern culture. I see it vital that we allow each group to maintain their way of life, so long as it doesn't interfere with unity.

Im going on too long. But Im reading a lot on the subject lately

Hah, you're fine.

His judgement for heresy had nothing to do with this quote, niggerfaggot.