wardaddy: "but I am not ambivalent about my disgust of a little nest of south haters here."
Nobody posting on Free Republic "hates the south".
So wardaddy's suggestion is ridiculous, and only really hints that neo-Confederates are just Democrat provocateurs.
What defenders of the Republic here do oppose -- and patiently repeatedly correct -- is ridiculous anti-historical nonsense hawked by some neo-Confederate propagandists.
wardaddy: "but we've had: illbay, whiskeypapa, non sequitur, titus finkus, llan ddeussant, mortin sult, trumandogz, whoisgeorgesalt, r9etb and many others I can't recall right now strictly from memory but in time they finally just can't help it and some mod finally has enough"
Mods seem to tolerate more abusive talk on Civil War threads than they do on some others, and nearly all the strong language I've seen comes from neo-Confederates.
The only name on wardaddy's list I recognize is non sequitur, and he's been gone for some years now, iirc.
By contrast, rockrr's list seems to me short a good many very, ahem, "colorful" neo-Con characters.
A decidedly leftist tactic is to attack the messenger, not the message. I viewed with disgusted amusement a few of the lost causers attempts to besmirch their opponents with slanders that ran the gamut from liberal (lame) to such colorful terms as statist and “federalist bootlicker” (my favorite). But the truly illogical and dishonest tactic was to lump anyone who disagreed with them wholesale as disruptors to FreeRepublic.
I don’t know who assembled the list (& IDC) but I’ve seen it trotted out - usually by one of the “oldtimers” - and offered as “proof-positive” that the inverse of a lost cause loser must (somehow) necessarily be a threat to the site. Sometime I really fear for the sanity of our LCL friends.
So at one point about two years ago I got curious and sought to identify the neo-confeds who had met similar fates. Thus my list. Notice that I didn’t call them “libs” and allowed them the benefit of the doubt as to the circumstances of their ultimate fates - unlike warpussy who feeeeels the need to castigate in absentia.
If you would care to contribute additional names to my list I’m all ears ;-)