I enjoyed reading your posts. I see you roused the whole Klan. I made the mistake of getting involved in these threads before. Then I realized that there is just no way to reason with them at all. They are as fanatical as Muslim extremists. Seriously, they are.
I have an interest in civil war history just as I do in all history. To these neo-confederates, though, it is an all consuming obsession. The number of postings on the unveiling of the confederate constitution should be a guide. The fact the Southern economy was based on slavery doesn't matter to them. The fact the Southern leaders stated at the onset of the war that slavery was the reason for the breach doesn't matter to them. The fact that slavery is inherently evil and corrupting doesn't matter to them. The fact that most of the Southern generals had fought in the Mexican war- a truly national war- making them traitors to their country later, doesn't matter to them. They will twist all to make it fit their view and any people that don't agree becomes "damnyankees" regardless of their origin.
Hate and ignorance intertwined. It gives good insight to fanaticism though. Just thought you should know that you can either argue with them till the cows come home or just blow them off and move on, you can't make them think.
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the Mexican war- a truly national war New England tended to sit that one out, as it did others.
In the Mexican war,
Massachusetts furnished.................1,047
New Hampshire....................................1
The other New England States........0,000
......................................................1,048
The whole number of troops contributed by the North to the Mexican war was 23,054; while the South contributed 43,630....
SOURCE: Southern History of the War, Edward A. Pollard, 1866, Vol I, Fairfax Press Edition 1978, pp. 64-5.