The Culture War Comes to Old Dominion

Creators Syndicate ^ | 1/10/20 | Pat Buchanan

[kearnyirish2]

The problem is the birthrate in the rural areas; it consigns many states to the lib column.

[ek_hornbeck]

FYI.

[ek_hornbeck]

When I was 7, my family moved to Maryland from New Jersey and I had to do a report on an Afro-American hero, and I was assigned nat turner. The encyclopedia entry was short... Nat turner led a slave revolt killing 66 people, men, women and children, while they slept. It was hard for me to accept any heroes after that.

If Nat Turner qualifies as a "hero", then so does every school shooter and jihadi suicide bomber.

[wardaddy]

You have a link to that assertion?

Some academics and I’m sure you know this considering this is your tar baby say West Virginia supplied more unique resident enlistments to the Confederacy than to The North....note I said unique resident

West Virginia creation was a Pelosi like power grab and even Abe and Thaddeus Stevens admitted it

Less than half the eligible inhabitants in those counties even voted in the referendum and those delegates who instigated it all ended up running it throughout the war for Washington

Secession for me but not for thee.

I’m sure that escapes you kearney...lol

There is a reason they put the first capital in Wheeling which was and is a yankee town ..besides being at times America’s most corrupted city

Southern West Virginia was union at the point of a bayonet

[teeman8r]

It made me a cynical seven tear old

[kearnyirish2]

NYC was union at the point of a bayonet as well; they had draft riots because the Irish saw slavery as no reason to throw away their lives. In the North they were competing with freed blacks for low-skilled work.

The fact is that “West Virginia” had little need for slaves; it didn’t have the large plantations of other states. The fact that it was created mid-war is suspect; I’ll concede whatever crooked motives you assign to the Yanks involved.

[ek_hornbeck]

The fact is that “West Virginia” had little need for slaves; it didn’t have the large plantations of other states

I think something analogous almost happened with Tennessee. East Tennessee, being mountainous, isn't suited for plantations or large farms, and so many east Tennesseans were pro-union. There was talk of reconstituting the short-lived (and apprently unofficial) state of "Franklin" among many east TN unionists for much the same reason as the West Virginia split.

[kearnyirish2]

It makes sense; the people in the different regions within the same state have little in common.