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It's amazing how close some of us still are generationally to The War.

I was pointing this out to my sons just yesterday. Hatreds and prejudices die hard. Knowing today's children aren't all that far removed from the Civil War, it makes it a little bit easier to understand why there is still mallingering bitterness on the part of both blacks and southerners. Both suffered injustices.

Indeed. Although, for many Americans today outside of the South, and (more and more) even in the South, The War has no real meaning: not only did their forebears not fight in The War, none of their forebears had come to these States before the 20th century.

At the risk of being considered a nativist, and meaning no disrespect to those who have immigrated after having known true oppression, there tends to be a fundamental difference in outlook on such things as the ownership of fire arms, defense generally, self-reliance and the welfare state, on the part of those who are descended from the people who wrested this land from the Wilderness, fought for its Independence from Great Britian, fought in The War or our subsesquent wars and have led this Nation through most of its history. The hordes in the East and Left Coast cities who hate guns and want a welfare state government to take care of them are much more likely to be the children or grandchildren of relatively recent immigrants from countries that have never known liberty, than to be the greatgreatgreatgrandchildren of the officers and men of the Continental Line.

” It’s amazing how close some of us still are generationally to The War.

I was pointing this out to my sons just yesterday. Hatreds and prejudices die hard. Knowing today’s children aren’t all that far removed from the Civil War, it makes it a little bit easier to understand why there is still mallingering bitterness on the part of both blacks and southerners. Both suffered injustices. “
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This has been an enjoyable thread. Sometimes I think those of us who’ve been in this country for many generations are related. My genealogy project turned into a book.

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