The GOP was founded by abolitionists....what did you expect them to do when they got into power?
I’m damn proud to be a republican....I’m glad the Republicans kicked the shit of those democrat plantation owners....and I’m glad the Republicans ended Democrat passed Jom crow laws by force if needed be...
Arent you?
WTF?
These attempts to re-write and whitewash history are the very same things Liberals are doing for christ sake....I’m fine with southern pride..I’m fine with the NV battle flag....I’m glad we still have active members of reenactment groups......I think banning the flag is pure liberal facism.
And I’m outraged that Liberals are attacking war monuments and sacred grave sites....this was settled a long time ago by the men who fought each other and then later became comrades as veterans who held each other in mutual respect for decades to come.
But the notion that the civil war wasnt a direct result of decades of conflict between pro and anti slavery forces, resulting in open warfare at times....is a purely false one.
The artical in the OP was written by a man who thinks the south “should have” won the civil war....
Well...they tried and failed.
This romantic neo confederate vision is driven on the false notion that an alternative history based on that outcome...would leave the present looking anything like it does today.
It’s not up to us to re-judge or re-write the struggle or the outcome...again...the men who fought that struggle made their amends....and it is not for us to undo them.
That’s funny, because to get a flavor of the cause of the Civil War from dispassionate and neutral sources, one can simply read the European accounts of the conflict, both contemporary and historical. Even Karl Marx (who had no love at all for the Confederacy), called the Civil War a “tariff war.” European writers said that staying in the Union would cost the South millions, but the Southern states leaving the Union would cost the North millions.