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Thank you!

You are of course right as rain.

The poster I’m tilting with has a VERY long history on this site, albeit under another screen name, and it is sometimes hard for one to contain himself.

There are many clues to the individual's fanaticism in his posts on this thread, alone. For example, he disparages the journalist Margaret Mitchell, who simply wrote an excellent historic novel. Does that have anything to do with the subject, or even with the arguments that broke out? But it displays a need to deny reality--Mitchell's picture of the old South was based on the lady's spending an enormous amount of time, interviewing survivors of the era, before they died.

That race relations in the Old South were as she pictured, is fully confirmed by the address of Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895.

Why would any American feel the need to endeavor to spread hate by denying the existence of relations based upon mutual respect, that did in fact exist? If you can answer that, you will begin to see a pattern that has persisted in the West among people of a certain mind set, since the Jacobins began butchering traditionalists in France in the "Reign Of Terror." It is the world view of Karl Marx, the sociopath John Brown, Thaddeus Stevens, Lenin, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot and many others who have compulsively sought uniformity of the human condition.

The American South has long been the object for the hatred of such, perhaps because you have produced so many smiling, happy & tolerant, individualists. (But see, Compulsion For Uniformity, for examples of manifestations of this form of intolerance.)

William Flax