[Aetius]

Won’t this get you banned here? Establishment conservatives have pretty much surrendered to or even embraced the leftwing view that there was nothing good about the Confederacy and the attempt to resist northern aggression.

[sargon]

The documentary evidence that the Confederacy was based on slavery and racism is both voluminous and undeniable. It's unfortunate that the Southern States chose to hang their "State's Rights" hat on such an issue.

Being born in the South, I grew up with my measure of Southern pride.

But it's quite difficult to reason away the fact that the Confederacy's primary basis was a belief in the legitimacy of Slavery and the imagined superiority of the white race. This sentiment is supported by speeches, founding documents, statements, and the like by numerous Democrats at the time, both from the North and South.

The Democratic Party (and its Confederacy) were defenders of Slavery.

The Republican Party was founded on a belief in its Abolition.

I'm not particularly interested in hearing apologists for the bigoted Democratic Party which dominated the South during this period, and for so long afterward.

Southern Heritage is a fine thing to be proud of, but it should also be an opportunity to face some ugly facts.

If Lincoln was a Tyrant, he was made so by the insane adherence of Democrats to the Tyrannical concept of Slavery, which was fundamentally incompatible with Liberty.

Congress kept cowardly punting the issue for 70 years, and the result was a Civil War which ended slavery at an enormous cost in Blood.

Any diligent research will reveal many harsh truths, and it's not particularly pretty, whether one is a fan of the Union OR the Confederacy.

For reference and extensive, documented evidence that the Democratic Party's Confederacy was based on racism, I would suggest American History in Black & White by David Barton...

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Establishment conservatives have pretty much surrendered to or even embraced the leftwing view that there was nothing good about the Confederacy and the attempt to resist northern aggression.

The ball's in your court. Just what was good about the Confederacy?

I'll grant that once the Davis regime started shooting and the Union responded militarily a lot of Southerners felt bound to "defend" their home soil, but what good did or would secession and the creation of the Confederacy have served?

Would a slave state rebellion really have made the world any freer?

[Ditto]

Establishment conservatives have pretty much surrendered to or even embraced the leftwing view that there was nothing good about the Confederacy and the attempt to resist northern aggression.

And we came to that conclusion about 150 years ago.