I know there are some in bluegrass who are not into the "South shall rise again" attitude and that they have less of the stringent viewpoint that has been called "bluegrass nazi" but there are those who want to make it a cultish identity and those who claim that their music is somehow pure, but a hybrid like any other form of folk music.

This is not smearing because I am not painting all bluegrass musicians with the same brush but I am calling attention to the tendency of some toward racism,
pseudo-Southern jingoism, pseudo-sentimentality of the Confederacy, a big hoax,
and a general intolerance for any music that isn't bluegrass. You can't tell me that these attitudes don't exist. Otherwise there would be no point in saying that people are trying to smear bluegrass or the purpose of this thread.

To be in denial about this does no service to bluegrass music .