The 1860s are over.
Hanging onto the long dead past is destroying the Republican Party.
“Hanging onto the long dead past is destroying the Republican Party.”
Care to elaborate?
Why am I not surprised that a Rooty Rooter would say that.
They seem to have a problem with anything that isn’t NE liberalism.
BS!!!
“Hanging onto the long dead past is destroying the Republican Party.”
So are the years 1776 thru 1788....
Is hanging on to the United States Constitution / Bill of Rights destroying us too?
Yeah, that’s what is destroying the Republican Party. The South’s decision to honor its dead. /sarcasm off.
btw, when did you become a southerner??? until/unless you are southern, we care NOTHING about what an IGNORANT & BIGOTED "outsider" like you thinks/does NOT think.
free dixie,sw
You are an F’in idiot. The flag is on the statehouse grounds to honor the soldiers who fought and lost their lives in the Civil War.
Does “hanging on to the past” count for the rest of the wars we have been in or only the one for southern independence? It ain’t destroying the republican party either. Whacko liberals are doing it without a fight.
It is NOBODY else’s business but South Carolina.
That INCLUDES the Republican Party.
I thought they lost the war!
How do you figure that? The once solidly Democratic south is now solidly conservative Republican from the Ohio river to the gulf of Mexico, and from the Virginia coast to the AZ desert. Take away the former Confederate states and politically speaking the northeastern states would be just an extension of Canada.
But I am a little surprised by the size of the opposition in some of the western states. A large percentage of the original settlers in much of the west were southerners who were dispossessed of their homes and property by Yankee carpetbaggers and southern scalawags during the 15 year long era of vengeful Reconstruction tyranny enforced on white southerners by Yankee bayonets. If that fool Booth had not murdered Lincoln I believe the south would have fared much better after the war.
On the contrary.
The “Southern Strategy” revitalized the GOP and led to its many victories from 1968 on.
You are still here? I thought Mr. Robinson got rid of all the liberal Rudy pukes. How’d he miss you?
Would you include things roughly 90 years older? Like the Constitution?? Or are you more selective of which parts of the "long dead past" you would keep?
History is history, warts and all. The absence of an honest study of our past increases the likelyhood we will repeat its worst moments.