I was just thinking of approaching this with perhaps a thread like "The Evolution of Southern Presbyterianism". I think when the Slave-States were invited by Alabama, with very little I saw said about the Northern States (a very unique secession for sure), that Montgomery Alabama would become the first Capitol, if "Capitol" is fitting, definitely not a London, or a Rome, as far as being a City-Capitol, where they wrote the Bonnie Blue Flag, and the Confederate Constitution together, which would specifically out line the Calvinist, Presbyterian/Puritan God of the Fathers of the Nation that Colonized America. The Constitution, We The People, Under Almighty God, in the Sovereign Character of the States. The Scots came to the aid of the English Civil War Puritan Parliament in the first stage of the war they take over Catle-upon-Tyre region of England, which goes a Long way to spell out exactly how a scotsman would go about singing "bonnie Blue Flag" anyway. Many remember the Puritans fled as Pilgrims the Church of England's persecutions giving up on reforms, and the Puritan/Presbyterians shared the Westminster Confession for the few years the Church of England was Reformed by the Westminster Confession during the English Civil War.
So I was thinking of a thread about the Very Specific topic "The Evolution of Southern Presbyterianism", since some Presbyterian could live in Maine ignoring events certainly, especially since its all been so heavily stamped down already. I'm looking at its evolution From the time of the Southern Provisional Government until Woodrow Wilson. There's an Evolution in Southern Presbyterianism. It seemed like that the Confederate Government was actually rather boisterous. Woodrow Wilson was more the product of the Occupation or "Reconstruction" in which the voters of the South between 1865 to 1900 were stuck with Republican candidates and African American representation (right or wrong). The Evolution of Southern Presbyterian follows how Woodrow Wilson was quoted in Griffith's KKK film "Birth Of A Nation". Woodrow Wilson in turn screens the film and endorses it as "true" at the White House. A Lot of handshaking going on here with the KKK.
So it seems like then,the Southern Presbyterian compromise position is making the United States as One Nation an Indivisible Nation, thus "Birth of a Nation". That's why the KKK is as prevalent as the South but had equally large chapters in every state equally, wherever this film was displayed, a White National unity symbol even. Now, is that accurate whatsoever, no. The South didn't say that. The KKK was a tiny section of history. Would we have ever noted General Nathan Forrest except for historical revisionism. He's never in a major communication for the Confederates.
In Conclusion, the Presbyterianism from a Southern perspective springs from the Unity period of the Reformed Puritan Calvinists and Reformed Presbyterian Calvinists, of the Church of Scotland and the Church of England, who participate in the Covenants of the Covenanters, who signed the Reformed Confession of the Westminster Confession. It Comes from Woodrow Wilson proclaiming Presbyterianism as the new safeguard of any such peoples. It evolves from a claim to overthrow tyrannical government heretics or Tyrants, or Romanists, to a Peace organization under Woodrow Wilson about the self-determination of all regions of all peoples in the World with the League of Nations. Southern Presbyterianism itself evolves and the larger International issue is the League of Nations, the nations "reconstruction" period, the re-establishment the Southern States enjoyed to defeat Populism, write State Constitutions, mottos, and flags, re-celebrate the Confederates and self-determination, and the southern Democrat period. This is nearly as large an international issue of study than the English Civil War itself, due to the League of Nations Woodrow Wilson created.
This post ending up so comprehensive, might I put a small conclusion on the matter, President Eisenhower appears to have pushed this geographical difference into obscurity when going into office proclaiming no religion in the United States could go against "All Me are Created Equal". Which, Jefferson Davis, in fact does, he says there's no way the Declaration of Independence was a universal declaration of the quality of all men, when the Declaration of Independence attacks England for freeing the slaves. This was a declaration against the Divine Birth of the line of Kings such as the Puritan motto "God is King" and "access to the professions" Davis said, and I think All peoples are owed truth to an almost lousy mimicry of Abraham Lincoln. Anyway, Eisenhower does lead to the full unification against the geographical churches pointedly, from his election in 1953 to the end of these churches in 1958 or again in 1983 with the new PCUSA. I see the 1958 in regards to the USA statehood of Hawaii that year, what could we possibly say about a Single Nation of endless "races" of evolving boundaries, and looking all the way back to Scotland. No wonder this whole issue is adrift.
