[Zeneta]

This thread needs some music.

Black Betty - Ram Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IousTfdD-Uo

And for the liberal fags up north.

Neil Young - Southern Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVRxdPWV3RM

And then we could just “Turn it up”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxWmSVv-cY

Being from the south isn’t about having slaves.

It’s about saying “F88k you” to anybody that tries to tell us what to do. Right or wrong, it doesn’t matter.

[rockrr]

Not crazy about neil but hell yea on Ram Jam and Sweet Home

[BroJoeK]

Zenta: "Being from the south isn’t about having slaves.
It’s about saying “F88k you” to anybody that tries to tell us what to do..."

In 1861 that depended, big-time, on where exactly in "the South" you lived.
In Appalachian counties of western Virginia, eastern Tennessee & western North Carolina there were virtually no slaves, and those Southerners remained loyal to the Union, throughout.

But in Deep South King Cotton counties, from South Carolina through Texas, slave-ownership approached 50% of white families and they became die-hard secessionists.

So the correlation between slave-ownership and secessionism was virtually 100% -- the more people who held slaves, the more strongly they supported secession.

By contrast, the numbers of Union troops provided by Unionists in Southern slave-holding states was enough to replace every Northern soldier killed in the war.