I knew nothing of that address by Robert Rhett when I pieced together the economic conundrum of that Tariff map I always post. I realized that something was seriously out of whack economically when I learned that most of the export value was the product of the South, yet most of the money went to the North. It was nearly six months later that I discovered that speech by Robert Rhett. (I think someone, Pearidge perhaps, put me on to it.)
But yes, Robert Rhett spells out a great deal of the Southern economic lament caused by the lopsided economic favoritism given by the Union to the North.
Of course you realize the South had been building up hatred and animosity towards the North for a long time.
Picture this. Smug and Arrogant Liberals from Massachusetts and New York looking down their noses at the backwards hicks who can't keep up with the new morality which the "enlightened" people of Liberal enclaves have embraced.
Imagine them mocking you constantly and deliberately misstating your position on issues, all the while urging their sycophants to laugh at and ridicule you.
Imagine them telling you that you have to accept Homosexual Marriage, or that you have to accept Abortion on Demand, or that Prayer in public Schools must be banned, and that you should embrace indigent third world "immigrants" who have no desire to adapt to your societal norms yet wish to force their religion on you.
Imagine they are trying to cut off your access to fossil fuels because the new morality declares "Global Warming" to be a major crises where everybody except them must sacrifice for the greater cause.
Imagine them telling you that you must pay the lion's share of the taxes to pay for their Liberal policies and liberal government spending.
Picture their efforts to FORCE you to comply with their recently adopted morality that turns everything you know on it's head. Imagine them telling you that you are an evil, uneducated, hate-filled ignorant subhuman moron for daring to disagree with their Moral pronouncements, you know, the way the Elite Urban Liberals treat us now.
How would you feel about these condescending Liberal @$$holes?
I don't suppose you can imagine what that feels like, can you?