It is not necessary to belabor the embrace of racism by the Southern Baptist Churches before the Civil War, or the many political battles over extending the South's Peculiar Institution into US territories in order to create more slave states, and thus preserve the delicate and precarious balance between Slave and Free in the US Congress, especially the Senate. Nor is it necessary to belabor Jim Crow, the Dixiecrat Party, Massive Resistance, or the Republican Southern Strategy. I have written about many of these points in earlier Daily Kos Diary entries.
I will merely note that Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species on 24 November 1859, just in time to inflame Southern opinion in advance of the Civil War. The South howled with rage at the suggestion that Whites and Blacks were both descended from apes, and worse, that Whites are descendants of Black Africans. This suggestion is so heinous that it cannot even be mentioned in public. It is the starting point for the notion that science is a conspiracy of the Devil, manifesting itself currently in Global Warming Denialism. But let that pass.
Instead my theme is the extent to which modern Republican ideas are simply a recycling of the Confederate Constitution and the rhetoric of the Civil War, so that whenever you hear any of these themes, even the terminology used in expressing them, you know that you are hearing racism.
Basically, liberty in the Confederacy meant liberty to oppress others without interference from the Federal government, and human rights meant property rights, specifically the right to own other human beings. Liberty to oppress is still with us, even if property in human beings (other than ownership of corporations) is not. Not just Blacks, of course. Latinos, Muslims, women, college students, gays, and atheists all come in for the full treatment. Atheists worst of all, as it happens, where Atheism=Secular Humanism, with Darwinism as its worst tenet, except for all the others that are even worse, and that are leading to rule by the Antichrist and thus to Armageddon and the Rapture. For which not one of them has the decency to thank us.
Similarly, from my Code Words glossary on dKosopedia:
Antichrist, The
OMG, he's Black!
Armageddon
OMG, he's Black!
Black
N * * * * * ; The morally and intellectually inferior, tyrannical, vengeful, out-of-control ruling minority race that is Destroying Our Country just like we told you they would for all those years, and just like they did after the War of Northern Aggression before we took them in hand
Class war
Oppression of the rich by the poor
Creationism
The religious theory that claims that Southern White males are not descended from monkeys, that is to say, Black Africans. Although you might be.
Culture war
"This is a Christian country! How dare you quote Thomas Jefferson?"; The oppression of the Christian Right by "Darwinist" atheists—Charlton Heston; Yankee tyranny attempting to destroy the Southern way of life, particularly the Southern Aristocracy and the rest of the Southern caste system—any Civil War secessionist, any Southern Strategy Republican
Darwinism
The theory (some say "religion") that all humans, including rich White Southern males, are descended from monkeys, that is to say, from Black Africans, even though we know that Adam was White, and Africans are Black because of the curse of Ham.
Democracy
(US) A political system in which Real Americans have the vote. See Voter Fraud. (Foreign policy) see Free and Fair Election.
Democrat Party
Traitors, terrorists, Black Supremacist racists, and of course rats, bent on Destroying Our Country
Democratic Party
Never heard of it
Destroying Our Country
OMG, he's Black! They're taking over! They'll murder us in our beds, the same as Thomas Jefferson!
Due process
The rules that apply only to Real Americans. Especially corporations, of course.
Enumerated powers
The doctrine that Congress has only the powers specifically stated in the Constitution, so that the Commerce Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and other general clauses in the Constitution are nullities, conferring no actual powers. In particular, Congress did not have the authority to use both Commerce and Equal Protection to pass the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, nor did the Supreme Court have the authority in Brown v. Board of Education to overturn Plessey v. Ferguson, making segregation and the rest of Jim Crow illegal, nor did President Eisenhower have the authority to send Federal troops to enforce Brown v. Board.—Sen. Tom Coburn at Elena Kagan hearings
Equality
More equal for us—George Orwell, Animal Farm; more equal for corporations—US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Application of Fourteenth Amendment rights for ex-slaves to corporations. See also liberty, brotherhood
Evolution
Slander!! You can't tell me that I'm descended from Black Africans!
Family values
White male supremacy and the double standard
Founders, The
The slave-owning members of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Free and fair election
One that our candidate won
Freedom of speech, and of the press
When I want to hear your opinion, I'll tell it to you.
Government takeover
Yankee government takeover that will force us to pay for Health Care for N * * * * * s.—Neo-Confederate Rep. Joe Wilson
Judeo-Christian Values
Racism, willful ignorance, theocracy, slavery, intolerance, Crusades, genocide, rejoicing at the sufferings of the Damned in Hell; also anti-Semitism
Junk Science
Science, particularly evolutionary biology ("Darwinist religion") and alarmist Global Warming
Liberty
Property rights, gun rights, no regulation of business, the right to oppress the poor, minorities, and immigrants. See also equality, brotherhood.
Limited government
Limited to giving gifts to racists, bigots, and kleptocrats, not the undeserving poor
Nullification
No, we're not, and you can't make us.
OMG, he's Black
And worse than that, he intends to be another Abraham Lincoln; The Sum of All Fears; Reparations and revenge
Oppressed minority
Rich White Christian males, particularly the Southern Aristocracy
Original intent
In Constitutional law, slavery and exclusion of women and the poor from voting, as it was before those pesky Amendments about slavery, citizenship, applying the Bill of Rights to the states, Equal Protection of the Laws, and voting rights; The original intent of the Confederate constitution, which was nearly word-for-word identical with the US Constitution, except for explicitly protecting slavery, explicitly putting in God, providing a line-item veto (So that's where that came from!), but not specifying the God-given right of Secession of any Confederate state, which does not come from government. Because clearly that's what the Founding Fathers meant, not this Yankee tyranny.
Problems
Blacks and others of low caste who don't know their place—Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott; gays—Christian Right; terrorist Liberals—Ann Coulter; women—Phyllis Schlafly; OMG, he's Black!
Purity of Southern Womanhood
Double standard of Southern Manhood
Radical
N * * * * * -lover
Reparations
OMG, he's Black! They want everything!—Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing
Republic
Tyrannical oligarchy, as described by Plato in his books The Republic and The Laws.
Science
Creationism, in the guise of Intelligent Design, aka Cargo Cult Science
Secession
The most important of States' Rights. We will secede if necessary to maintain this right against Yankee/N*** tyranny. If they can violate the Original Intent of the Constitution by enforcing the 14th Amendment, then the Constitution no longer binds us and we're outta here. This has nothing to do with past slavery or racism at any time in history.
Secular Humanist
N * * * * * -loving Darwinist who claims that we are all descended from Black Africans, even rich Southern White males, whom we all know to be the pinnacle of God's Creation.
Slavery
OMG, he's Black!— the coming enslavement of Whites—Glenn Beck
Southern aristocracy, the
White kleptocrats
Southern Strategy
The South will rise again! (Not really, but they won't know that.)—Sen. Strom Thurmond, President Richard Nixon, Sen. Barry Goldwater, President Ronald Reagan, Sen. Jeff Sessions
Sovereignty
The right to reject social programs; formerly the right to reject desegregation, and before that Federal restrictions on slavery and taxes on whiskey
States' rights
The right to oppress their own people—John C. Calhoun, Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Rand Paul
Strict constructionist
One who upholds slavery and exclusion of women and the poor from voting; one who maintains that the 14th Amendment protections for ex-slaves are primarily meant to protect corporations
Their place
The field, the kitchen, the back of the bus, and the master's bed.
Thoughtful
I've thought about it, and I don't give a damn.
Tyranny
Civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, and regulation of business; Federal taxes on alcohol enforced by Revenooers—Strom Thurmond, as Governor of South Carolina; Any restrictions whatsoever on slavery—any Civil War Secessionist
Uppity
Thinking that equality applies to you—Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing
Voter Fraud
Anything that lets more poor people and minorities vote—John McCain; ACORN; the Democrat (sic) Party