Okay. Now, I'm no fan of the Confederacy (my own Southern ancestors fought against it) nor do I stand silent in the face of claims that George Washington would have been a Confederate or that Thomas Jefferson's "strict construction" is "the official and true" way to interpret the Constitution. And I sure as blazes hold no love for our mondern day "neo-Confederates" who are anti-Semites and hold positions the Confederacy fought against and are total frauds. But sir . . . you have told a blatant lie.
The Confederate States of America at no time was ever anti-Jewish. Ever. The first Jew to get a cabinet post in American history did so in the Confederacy. Hundreds of Southern Jews fought for the Confederacy (I restrict the number only because I don't think enough of them lived there to contribute thousands, though I could be wrong). The Confederate leaders, both civil and military, were philo-Semites. The only Jewish military cemetery outside Israel is one for Jewish Confederates in Virginia.
On top of that, Jews were leaders in the development of the South. Charleston, South Carolina was so identified with Jews that anti-Semites claimed it was world Jewish headquarters from which they conducted their nefarious plans. The first white settler in Alabama was a Jew. The first mayor of Greenville, Mississippi was a Jew. How in the blazes you have the brass to come on this forum and claim the Confederacy was anti-Semitic? Are you really that ignorant?
On top of that, it was the Union that sometimes engaged in anti-Jewish policies. The most anti-Semitic decree in American history was signed by General Grant. Even Benjamin Franklin Butler, "the ultimate Yankee," was a notorious anti-Semite. The North was, after all, more traditionally "American" and Protestant while the South was looked on as some sort of un-American offshoot of Medieval Europe.
The whole "Southerners hate Jews" meme was invented by liberals and "palaeoconservatives" for the distinct purpose of separating the Jews form the ancient Israelites in the public mind (you know, because "anti-Semitic" Southerners interpret the Hebrew Bible literally and Jews are supposedly all atheists, union organizers, and dirty nightclub comics???).
The whole this is a fantasy. Most anti-Semitism entered the South only via the (at that time left wing) Populists in the later nineteenth century. Since that time there have certainly been Southern anti-Semites (who again are used to prove how "evil" Genesis is since it "causes anti-Semitism"). Tom Watson and John Rankin are notorious examples and of course the lynching of Leo Frank was a black spot on the South. But these were all deviations from the Old South and have long since given way to philo-Semitic Biblical Fundamentalism. Even Bull Connor wasn't an anti-Semite.
Shame on you. Of course, having made the claim you probably don't care what the consequences are, but some of us care very much.
You want to find an anti-Semitic area of the country? Try Harlem, which has been the site of at least two pogroms!
I have an ancestor who served in The Army of The Potomac. The Confederacy was a creation of the Democrat Party. Shame on you. Name me one Jewish person who served the Confederacy. Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan were a direct out growth of embittered former Confederates. The KKK were anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic, among other things. The Klan had a chapter here in Sherwsbury , NJ in the 1920’s. My late grandfather, an Irish Catholic fought with them many times.
Ah! I see you've met Jmacusa!
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