I know we’re all a little edgy because our freedom is being sucked away from us by the current administration but, to say that it would have been better if the south had won the civil war is nuts.
The history of southern racism following the civil war is also a great shame that we’d all like to forget about
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Nugent said “it may have been better had the South won the civil war”-—may have.
*snip* If Loewen’s first priority is to unveil what he calls the “hidden history” of sundown towns, his second is to debunk the widely held idea that when the issue is race, the South is always “the scene of the crime,” as James Baldwin famously wrote. The incidence of sundown communities in the South, Loewen reports, was actually far lower than it was in a Midwestern state such as Illinois, in which roughly 70 percent of towns were sundown towns in 1970. “This does not make whites in the traditional South less racist than [those] in . . . other regions of the country,” he suggests. */snip*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102001715.html
I am sick and tired of the South being the whipping boy.
“I thought that stuff happened in Florida or Mississippi somewhere, but not here in New York State,” Mayor Mike Bloomberg lashed out in anger this week
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903402/posts
Whenever anyone wants to mimic a stupid person they generally break into their very best contorted, fake, southern accent.
The South doesn’t have the market on racism, it doesn’t and never did. Racism was/is and remains an American problem, not a regional one.
Slavery needed to end. Though, slavery would have ended without the war and I’m glad it didn’t take the longer route. I just wish it could have happened without the war.
I am sick of bigoted Yankees using the South as their example of everything negative, backwards and embarrassing. It’s time the Northern folk quit looking down their nose shaking a finger—they have plenty to tend in their own gardens.
What may have been better had the South won...taxes would remain in the South and not go to bigoted Northern states who look down their noses at the South and who aren’t Right-to-Work states. We would be free of that cancer.
Unions are destroying this country and they are freaking communist. Mostly the South is right-to-work.
It is just in your insecurity. If you think that the North is looking down at the South then do something about it. Clean up your act. That is the only way to impress people. I think it is in your head though. It is like those crazy folks who see two people whispering and the person thinks they are talking about them and in reality they are just talking about the weather. Either ignore what you think people are saying abut the South or change. By the way, I lived in the North my entire life and I actually see Southern folks talking down about Northern people, but people in the North tend to be secure and can rise above people from the South talking down to them. That is what grownups do.