Ray McBerry has demonstrated proven leadership in the Southern Movement for more than a decade now. Consider the following as a partial list of his qualifications for Georgia Division Commander in 2008:
Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans under ancestor Wade Hampton Trammell, Ga 30th Infantry
1st Lieutenant, Gen John B Gordon Memorial Camp, 1449; Thomaston, Georgia
Member of Georgia League of the South since 1995
Chairman of the Georgia League of the South since 2002
National Board of Directors for The League of the South since 2004
Founder and President of DixieBroadcasting Radio
Awarded the "Dixie Defender Award" by Commander-in-Chief Denne Sweeney in 2005
Awarded the prestigious "Jefferson Davis Lifetime Service Award" by The League of the South in 2005
"States' Rights" Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2006
In addition to the individual merits listed above, Ray has been tireless in his efforts to support Southern Heritage for over ten years, speaking in hundreds of meetings, driving thousands of miles, and spending of his personal finances for various Southern projects.
Ray's activist credentials include working to restore the 1956 REAL Georgia flag by, among other things, organising flag rallies, campaigning for a county flag based on the '56 design, and personally distributing over 9,000 "Let Us Vote" yard signs from his front porch in McDonough. He also led the effort which resulted in having the Ten Commandments publicly displayed in the Henry County Courthouse in 2004. Ray is frequently asked to speak at various Southern and civic meetings around the state, and his message entitled "Southern Redemption" has been, perhaps, the most-requested single speech in the Southern Movement for the past several years.
Ray's commitment with "affection, reverence, and undying devotion" to the Cause is demonstrated by the fact that he not only honours the stand of our ancestors upon that Cause but seeks to uphold and promote that Cause and its "rightness" today, as well.
