[Ohioan]

So National Review has published the apology of a bit of a Southern turn-coat? As I did not approve of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton, in part for the same reason, I will express my disdain for the NR writer.

As a proud Ohioan, I will not disavow the Ohio military men, who basically made the difference in the terrible War; even though I sincerely believe that the war could have been avoided. I honor those brave Ohio military men, and I also sincerely respect those unashamed Southerners, who honor their Confederate traditions.

All of that said, it is a completely dishonest tactic, intellectually, to denounce anyone's ancestry, because at some time, their ancestry lived in a country that had some form of involuntary servitude. Frankly, I have tried to think of five countries in the entire world, that never had some form of involuntary servitude, and I do not believe that I can.

Rather than dreaming up reasons to divide American Conservatives in 2015, why doesn't someone actually try to identify countries that never had involuntary servitude? It might start to put the divisive device, back in Pandora's box.

[wardaddy]

GOP who do this are usually soft on culture or young or vested in something that makes them anti Southern

They use South bashing as way to be conservative but claim to “care” or not be a “racist”

They fall for the lefts design

[mac_truck]

why doesn't someone actually try to identify countries that never had involuntary servitude?

Vermont never did.