I'm not KKK, I just want to preserve my heritage...

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

You're an idiot. TNTDODD was written by a Canadian as a first-person narrative of social distress experienced by a poor white Southerner during the last year of the American Civil War. WTF does that have to do with Trump embracing Neo-Nazis?

Like my father before me, I will work the land
Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet,
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat

It seems to me Trump and his Lost Cause fanboys are indeed trying to raise Caine.

You're an undulating flow of old mucus, but that's beside the point.

Yes, the song is absolutely about Southern Heritage. It invokes sympathy for those whose lives were forever changed by the civil war. It recalls the dead who fought in that war The lyric you cite above invokes the memory of a Confederate Soldier who was "proud and brave", who fought for something he believed in (he took a rebel stand).

But I guess your interest in this topic is a bit to "surface" and "Trump focused" to understand that. The core of the question really is: what did it really mean to "take a rebel stand". To folks like Ike, and probably you, it ONLY means racism apparently.