1976 Election: blue=republican.
(Later the Dems wised up and decided they didn't like red, eh?)
Posted on 10/26/2004 4:28:59 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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I stand corrected.
I agree. Let's don't rehash this stuff again right now.
Therefore, I am not replying to this thread.
1976 Election: blue=republican.
(Later the Dems wised up and decided they didn't like red, eh?)
You hit on the key point, profitable. The southern rebellion was in response to what they saw as a threat to their institution of slavery.
Also the south is constantly portrayed as evil for fighting this war for slavery but hardly a word is mentioned of the rape of the southern economy by the north during reconstruction. A travesty from which the south has just begun to recover from in the last 20 years.
Melodrama aside, southern losses were a result of southern actions. When you start a war you cannot decide in advance how it will turn out.
Certainly. The 'Rats executed a successful strategy of nominating someone who could peel off some Republican-leaning Southern States from the Upper Midwest and Mountain States. They lost California, but got enough of the South to go with the big Middle Atlantic States to guarantee victory.
In due course, the Southerners eventually realized, to their rue, that pride in having "one o' ouah own" in office was no guarantee that he wouldn't turn out to be a McGovernite nitwit politically.
Rock on.
And since then y'all have, usually, come on over to the Party of Lincoln. Welcome aboard.
The southern rebellion was in response to what they saw as a threat to their institution of slavery right of self-determination, their state sovereignty, and the relationship of federal to state government, as well as their property rights, and their right to emigrate to the Territories and take their property with them.
After all, a policy of freesoil Territories was de facto an exclusion of Southern planters and whatever other Southern citizens might actually own slaves. That policy made them second-class citizens in their fathers' house, and intended to exclude them from the national patrimony.
Are you kidding me? Carter swept the south? My how times have changed.
The most intelligent and factual post on FR that I have seen regarding this subject in quite some time.
No, I was right the first time.
Walt got banned some time ago. But I agree with you're description of the article.
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