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Old Times are not forgotten in the South
Huntington News ^ | April 2, 2015 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Posted on 04/02/2015 4:24:38 PM PDT by BigReb555

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”

(Excerpt) Read more at huntingtonnews.net ...


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To: jmacusa

There is no harm done, FRiend. Happy Easter to you and yours.


121 posted on 04/04/2015 5:48:03 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: jmacusa

I’ve told you.

Have a care.

Good luck with your anger.


122 posted on 04/04/2015 5:48:24 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Don’t patronize me.


123 posted on 04/04/2015 5:52:14 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Same to you M’Lady.


124 posted on 04/04/2015 5:52:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hahahahahahahahahaha!


125 posted on 04/04/2015 10:32:34 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: onedoug
The "noble" Northerners who found slavery not to their economic advantage at the end of the 18th century sold their slaves to the South. It is where the phrase "sold me down the river" comes from.

No altruism there. The pompous asses that live there now calling in otherwise not withstanding.

126 posted on 04/05/2015 4:34:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jmacusa
I”M AN AMERICAN! WHAT ARE YOU?

So is someone from Brazil....

128 posted on 04/05/2015 4:37:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Well, sorta.

Louisville, Kentucky was a hub for the slave market. close to one million slaves were transported to the Deep South via Louisville and the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1860. Those slaves sold at the market In Louisville were literally “sold down the river”.

There may have been sales from northerners looking to offload unwanted slaves but those were statistically insignificant compared to pure market forces looking to satisfy southern demand.


130 posted on 04/05/2015 8:23:39 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: central_va
Were you born stupid or do you work at it? When I say ‘’American’’ I mean a citizen of these United States. Hey General, I have had more than enough of you and your bilge. From here on out I will no longer post to you, period. At all. You're a nonentity to me. Accord me the same consideration. From this moment on I don't want to know you. I don't want you to post to me and nor will I under any circumstances post to you. Understood?
131 posted on 04/05/2015 2:28:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa
I mean a citizen of these United States.<

That really makes no sense and if you had said that prior to 1861 you'd been thought daft.

132 posted on 04/05/2015 2:31:55 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jmacusa

Bump.


133 posted on 04/05/2015 2:54:49 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
It is where the phrase "sold me down the river" comes from.

Wrong. The phrase refers to slave owners from the upper south selling slaves to the lower south, literally sending them down the Mississippi River. The earliest citation of the phrase is from Missouri in the 1830s.

134 posted on 04/06/2015 11:03:18 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: BigReb555

They banned the flag from Lexington so now there is a huge one overlooking I-81.


135 posted on 04/06/2015 11:04:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: onedoug
But as you’re disposed to your jingoism, I wouldn’t expect you to understand that there were other causes to secession as well.

If only the secessionist leaders had cited those causes one-tenth as often as they cited slavery and it's protection as their reasons.

136 posted on 04/06/2015 11:05:44 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Mmogamer

I am very proud of my Southern heritage. Two GG grandads fought for freedom CSA, Loves company, Haywood co. North Carolina.

Sons of Confederate Veterans Texas
http://scvtexas.org/


137 posted on 05/06/2015 7:07:44 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Clintonfatigued
>>but I don’t think that succeeding from the union and inciting a civil war which claimed over 600K lives is anything to be proud of.<<

Spoken like a yankee. Nearly every damn yankee state is so freakin messed up, thousands every year are fleeing to the South for a better life. Well done D.C....well done.

138 posted on 05/06/2015 7:13:20 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Labyrinthos
>>It was about the rights of states to allow their citizens to own slaves<<

Well, gee wizz golly. Let's not mention that the champion of the negro wanted to colonize them outside the U.S.. Lincoln believed the negro would not assimilate in society, so he and others bounced around a plan to remove them from this continent.

Besides, some of the most infamous slave owners...oh my gosh, might I dare say...were black. Warring native tribes in Africa began the slave trade...shhhhh, better keep this one quiet as well.

139 posted on 05/06/2015 7:19:59 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: IronJack

>>And by the way, I’m a Yankee born and bred. But my sympathies lie elsewhere ...<<

You’ve just been awarded honorary Texan, we’d be glad to have ya.


140 posted on 06/01/2015 10:36:26 AM PDT by servantboy777
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