[robowombat]

More like watching the remarkable public relations triumph the abolitionist minority pulled off over John Brown's incarceration and execution. Hundreds of churches tolling their bells, hysterically emotional ‘memorial services in a half dozen states, the carefully staged ‘martyr's funeral’ of Brown and a number of those killed at Harper’s Ferry. Sermon's published in thousands of copies comparing America's first terrorist to Christ and his band of heavily armed terrorists to the Apostles. In the first place this was blasphemous to a deeply religiously conservative folk such as Southerners were and secondly it meant that many of their fellow Americans were hailing a man who wished to incite a slave revolt of the bloodiest sort as the reincarnation of Christ. I believe that was the moment when a majority of white Southerners regardless of whether they were slave holders or not decided there was no place for them in a country that many of their countrymen wanted them and their wives and children slaughtered in the most brutal manner. Watching Obama’s people I begin to have some of the same feelings my ancestors did long ago.

[central_va]

You are so full of it. Don’t give me that crap about Southern liberty when the south was keeping millions in slavery!

Above posted by 7thson

You and 7th psycho need to get together! LOL

[ohioman]

Good post. I had ancestors who were murdered by Kansas Redlegs in Missouri and Union Home Guard in Eastern KY - yet we only hear stories of how “Evil” the Southerners were. I currently feel like an outcast to the current USA. Is this how my ancestors felt before they were slaughtered for no good reason?