Wardaddy, I will always be a proud Southerner, and that includes our history. I never hear anyone say they American history needs to apologised for, wiped out of the textbooks, etc, because of the Trail Of Tears and other immoralities which happened under the aegis of the American flag. The South has historically and traditionally been the last bastion of conservatism, including the social issues. I am proud of that. I am proud of our ancestors, a tiny percentage of whom were slave owners, who fought against the invasion of our homeland and our right to self-determination. I see no distinction in our war against Lincoln’s tyranny and the Revolutionary War against King George-the America of Revolutionary times wasn’t perfect either, but that didn’t make their fight for freedom any less legitimate. What I have never understood, is why the North wanted so badly to hold us into the Union, when they have had nothing but contempt and opposition to our conservatism ever since, immediately after and to this day. We just want to go our own way and be left to do it in peace, but that’s never been good enough for the descendents of the Puritans, who have a historical reputation of forcing everyone within their reach to conform. Today’s left are merely their secular humanist heirs.
If by "go our own way" you mean secede from the USA, then you are simply wrong. The people of the South do not want to secede from the USA. That would fall into the category of delusion.
There have been some people from all parts of the country who really have wanted to leave the USA, but those people have actually left. This is not a prison.
There are other people who want to pretend that life is so unbearable here that they want to leave, but those people don't really leave. Like I said, they are pretending.
And, then, there are people who don't agree with everything about the USA and complain about this or that. That group includes all of the rest of us. ;-)
that post so well done so eloquent
Thank you