[Grand Old Partisan]

The United States is my country, your country, and the country of every American then and now. Incidentally, in addition to the 200,000 southern blacks who fought for the U.S. flag, so did 100,000 southern whites. They somehow do not get mentioned in history books because, now and then, most history books are and were written by Democrats. There were 35 regiments of white southerners in the U.S. army during the 1860s -- such as the 10th U.S. Tennessee Infantry, the 2nd U.S. Florida Cavalry, and General Sherman's personal escort during his march to the sea, the 1st U.S. Alabama Cavalry.

[agrandis]

The criminal enterprise known as the democratic party today is very similar to the Radical Republicans of the 19th century.

What never gets reported in the history books, are the Blacks who fought as Confederates, Lincoln's racist views, and the outrageous economic and moral bullying by the North in the years just prior to the war.

[Aurelius]

"The United States is my country, your country, and the country of every American then and now."

Obviously the Confederates didn't think so, and they had a right to that opinion.

[Aurelius]

"The United States is my country, your country, and the country of every American then and now."

I can think of only three possible bases of authority for your assertion. 1) (The legitimate one) Majoritarian agreement of all parties concerned. 2) Some form of muddle-headed mysticism such as that which afflicted Abraham Lincoln. 3) (The one which prevailed in 1865) Naked aggressive force.

[agrandis]

Read post 18 again. The Whigs in VA even wrote a letter to Lincoln pleading with him to use his head, and warning him that they would join their fellow Southerners to defend their homeland against invasion.

GOP, read widely, deeply, and open-mindedly (the hardest part for any of us) about this era in our history, and I think you'll be amazed at the difference in what is popularly taught and believed, and what is true. I think the best history is a wide reading of actual documents and letters.

This topic is very important. Fortunately, many young people today are being taught a less simplistic, more accurate history of this conflict through parents who are taking their childrens' educations into their own hands.

[Leatherneck_MT]

The United States is not "My Country". The United States Government is the Occupying force of "My Country".

After the war of Yankee Aggression, the North Occupied the South. They gave us our country defacto after defeating our armies in the field they Occupied our lands. You do not occupy your own country. You occupy ENEMY countries. Thank you Secretary of war Stanton. You encouraged Congress to give us, what we had desired but could not achieve by force of arms.

You gave the South a Country of their own.

We still see it that way.