Having absolutely no relevance to the race of America’s first black President, there’s been a lot of Confederacy nostalgia these days. Alabama Representative Paul Broun has compared Health Care Reform to the collapse of the beloved Confederate Dollar after the “Great War of Yankee Aggression” and Alabama Governor Bob Riley declared April Confederate History and Heritage Month. Hot on his heels, Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell has also proclaimed April “Confederate History Month”, backed by the Governor of Mississippi. And of course Texas Governor Rick Perry has suggested that Texas could secede from the Union. Well to celebrate this treasonous patriotic and inclusive moment that celebrates Southern heritage, I thought I would bring you a few ways to show your antebellum Southern pride. These were the very best images I could find and I think they show modern day Confederate culture in all of its beauty. Just click the pic to buy.
Stay classy, Dixie!
Fine Porcelain Confederate Stein. Via Wallhangings4u.
Confederate Heart Pillow via Pattern Diva
Ring Bearer Pillow via Eye Catching Creations
Rebel Flag Curtain via Dixie Outfitters Branson
Now here's a headboard idea I overlooked. Via Ugly House.
via Civil War Standard
Confederate table runners via Confedalot.
Confederate Touch Lamp. Via Mike
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There is a flag in front of a house in my coworker’s neighborhood. Before the election it was an American flag. Now it is a Confederate flag. I guess it is only treason and unpatriotic when Bush was in office.
Well obviously if you disagree with the outcome of a democratic election, you should start your own country that preserves states’ rights and human enslavement. Obvs.
I’ve read your blog basically from the beginning and this is my first comment. I like a lot of the things you have to say about race and class and I don’t get how this fits in? It’s mean-spirited and takes shots at lower income white people who are an “underrepresented people” that you say your blog wants to represent.
Hi Richard,
Thank you for delurking to comment and thanks very much for reading.
I agree that lower income people of all colors are underrepresented in decor media and I do want to highlight the laudable efforts of everyone working with limited means. This post doesn’t really exist to make fun of the items themselves, though. While the text was snark-heavy about Confederate nostalgia (and I think that snark is deserved) I am sincere in saying that these were the best images of Confederate-themed home decor I have been able to find. If you can find others, I would like to invite you to post them or link to them. I am also sincere in saying that I think these objects are a powerful material culture testament to the state of contemporary Confederate nostalgia culture in terms of their price points, marketing, quality, sophistication and fabrication. I’m not actually going to opine as to whether they are good or bad aesthetically but I think they reflect a lot about the people who are fixated on the South ‘rising again’.
I don’t believe anyone can fault you for displaying the ‘culturally distinct’ decor heritage items above, any more than the associated retail businesses can be held at fault for selling them. I’m sure the founders of ‘franklin mint’ would salute you and yet not quite get the irony of doing so.
ps: if you decide to start an alternative headboard series, I vote you include one using a ‘bull-bar’ off the front of a pickup truck.
Franklin Mint, for the win! (And yes, yes on all of your very good points).
Also…I have to wonder how many of these pieces are made in China.
I’m suprised my ex husband’s family didn’t buy me any of these things for Christmas while we were married. They did get me a box of loose dollar-store knives, though. So that’s awesome.
Ha! Made my morning… I hope you’ve watched some of those New Left Media videos on the Tea Party gatherings… they’re another day-brightener. -And people wanna keep cutting education. Ha!-