[TomOnTheRun]

What a shallow understanding of history.

Ok - how? Firstly, I'm talking perceptions and not actual history there. The perception that states rights was being used to justify Jim Crow and slavery before that is widespread and hardly uncommon. I wasn't even born by the time that idea had traction. I think Jim Crow laws strengthened the perception that those issues were linked. I think these are bad and false assumptions but I'm not silly enough to stand there and say that they aren't general assumptions.

[carton253]

Make up my mind! You are as slippery as other Freepers who argue about the Civil War. You should seek them out. They would welcome both your views and your debating skills.

[Luke21]

What you are missing is that many of us are sick and tired of being lectured to. For forty five years we've been told if we turn this way we are racists and that way we are racists. It's a racket. We now have a black president and they tell us of all things, that we are still racists.

So when you defend identifying motives as to whether or not someone may express themselves, you are speaking out of the liberal playbook.