I suppose it is amusing in a way that a southern Republican Confederacy today, while retaining the spirit of the American Revolution, would also retain the spirit of Lincoln’s Union, freedom and liberty.
And once again, the Democrats would be on the wrong side of history, supporting oppression, hate and the seven deadly sins as is their want.
As an interesting aside, I think it helps considerably to understand the Democrat point of view by reading the book, Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), by George Fitzhugh.
It is not just a passionate defense of slavery, but a view of slavery as “proto-socialism”, a system so good that 9 out of every 10 people should be slaves, working for the remaining 1 out of 10 who would be the masters.
Complete text:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/fitzhughcan/fitzcan.html#fitz25
About George Fitzhugh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fitzhugh
A good read, and quite telling also. Once the Union private interests took over the Southern private property (excepting slaves who were considered capital property in those times) and land, they then proceeded to put cheap labor factories in place and a new form of wage slavery for all who were thus economically trapped. So it was the Progressive socialists/neomarxists who used this meme and who replaced the real plantation with the govt. plantation, using the template of the “downtrodden” labor masses, and took over private enterprise into their industrial combines and railroads— and in the process making slaves comprised of many types of dependency of a whole lot more people, black and otherwise. And it was always the Democrat party preserving the status quo, however they could.
A crowning example of the statement that “Socialism is Theft”.
Not wanting to start another thread— but this has been the point of descendants of the propertied class of the South:that slaves became “constituencies” for the Progressives (working through the Freedmens Bureau and Reconstruction to impose federal political control over the “conquered” states, and later through the welfare state and War on Poverty)working to expand the Statist conquest over our Constitutional Republic and the total removal of States Rights. We have now come full circle, where the worst possible conservative to the Progressives, is a black conservative (Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell, etc.).
So now we are constantly bombarded by challenges to the States by an ever growing monumental Statist federalist government- a product of the Democrat party. Deo Vindice.