The following is a revision and extension of a speech delivered to the Other Club's 10th anniversary dinner on September 13th, 2002 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on the topic, "What Kind of People Do They Think We Are?" They think and say that we are "rebels," or at least are descended from a group of people called "rebels" who started a war in 1861 by firing on Union troops at Fort Sumter. Drawing largely on Clyde Wilson's essay "War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic" in The Costs of War (edited by John V. Denson), I propose that the … Continue reading What Kind of People Do They Think We Are?