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“southerners are the backbone of social conservatism”

Amen, brother. I, too, come back once in a while to check these guys out. Their hate and southernphobia is massive and lasting. I find WBTS history fascinating because the causes of the war (other than slavery) are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. States, rights, social engineering, federalism, regional dominance/suppression, SOTUS decisions.

The one undeniable fact that makes their heads explode is that it was Lincoln and the Union — having forced federalism upon us — that put us on the downward slide toward socialism and made it possible for Marxists like Obama to rise in power. This would NOT have happened in the Confederacy where government tried to preserve the vision of our Founding Fathers. It kills them to admit that Union perseverance and the rise of socialism go hand in hand, and that by worshiping Lincoln they are defacto advocates of Marxism/socialism.

Watch. They won’t be able to help themselves. It will only take a few minutes for them to start spewing hate simply because I spoke the truth. Just like liberals.

Lee'sGhost: "Watch. They won’t be able to help themselves.
It will only take a few minutes for them to start spewing hate simply because I spoke the truth.
Just like liberals."

Virtually everyone posting on Free Republic is not just "right of center" but "right of the center of the right" -- meaning we are the ones who support and vote for the most conservative of candidates to elected offices.
Of course, if that's "liberal" in your mind...

And truly, the only ones "spewing hate" and nonsense are you and your buddies.
The rest of us do our best to stick to the facts.

Lee'sGhost: "Lincoln and the Union — having forced federalism upon us — that put us on the downward slide toward socialism..."

That slide did not begin under Lincoln -- as has been pointed out here many times -- it began 100 years ago under the "Progressives", including Southerner President Woodrow Wilson, and with full-throated support from the solid Southern-Democrat South.

The South's transition from Liberal-Democrats to Conservative-Republicans began in 1964, and was not really completed until Bush vs Gore in 2000:

1936 -- Roosevelt (blue) vs. Landon (red):

2000 -- Bush (red) vs. Gore (blue)

Nothing more than Angry Amish and their goofball cracker kapos

been that way here since 2000

started as a club of black GOP lads from the DC area and they work as a group

they have been caught staging racism and had cohorts banned..who have likely filtered back

if you scratch the skin of any of them it’s either about that or it’s about their wife etc

blinded by their own bigotry and incapable of reasonable discussion about that period of history and an objective view of slavery in general or Lincoln or Radical Republicans etc

this is not say that many black freepers play this role here..in fact I’d guess 95% do not

the only frustrating thing is that frequently they are proven to be liberal agitators and it takes the mods here forever to zot them since they rarely go off Civil War threads

but when they do they expose themselves...(even though I disagree with X on anything race oriented...I do think he is a conservative otherwise...to this credit)...the rrest race bait any and everywhere if they get the chance