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Southerners looking to share their Confederate holiday
Hartford Courant ^ | March 22, 2009 | Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 03/21/2009 6:26:13 AM PDT by cowboyway

ATLANTA — In a cultural war that has pitted Old South against new, defenders of the Confederate legacy have opened a fresh front in their campaign to polish an image tarnished, they said, by people who do not respect Southern values.

With the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States in 2011, efforts are under way in statehouses, small towns and counties across the South to push for proclamations or legislation promoting Confederate history.

(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...


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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
What can you tell me about the congressional representatives and Governors from the northern states?

What do you want to know? Or would you like to try and explain Lott, Frist, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Liddy Dole, David Vitter first?

161 posted on 03/21/2009 5:19:37 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: mac_truck
Not at all like you purple southerners...

Va is holding on by a thread... Looks bad. Real bad.

162 posted on 03/21/2009 5:20:03 PM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: central_va
...Yankees appear to the same arrogant, dismissive yahoo’s they were 140 years ago.

And you Southron types are just plain old run-of-the-mill yahoos.

163 posted on 03/21/2009 5:21:13 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: central_va
I'll bet he looks pretty in them red boots.

Red legs. Jesus, can you people get nothing right?

164 posted on 03/21/2009 5:22:52 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: mac_truck

Seems to me the Gov. of Kansas is a Dummycrat. Not exactly the dark red heart of Republicanism.


165 posted on 03/21/2009 5:24:34 PM PDT by beandog
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To: Non-Sequitur

The boots wore red leather boots idiot, or did they paint their legs red after shaving them? LOL.


166 posted on 03/21/2009 5:26:51 PM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Explain what? www.acuratings.org.
Other than New Hampshire, there are NO Senators from the North that are rated higher than 50%. You really have no clue about what you’re writing. Not a clue.


167 posted on 03/21/2009 5:27:18 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
While you're at it, please explain why our fighting forces are disproportionately represented by southern fighters and underrepresented by northern fighters?

Must piss you off something fierce, all those Southern boys in the Yankee army.

So what branch of the army of occupation did you serve in?

168 posted on 03/21/2009 5:27:46 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

“Don’t cherry-pick please. He also said that if he could end the war by freeing all of them he would.”

The poster made his point, that Lincoln didn’t care one iota about the slaves; to him, they were nothing but a political commodity to be used or expended as circumstances dictated. Lincoln waged war not to free the slaves, but to restore the Union and the revenues associated with it.


169 posted on 03/21/2009 5:28:47 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: mac_truck

BTW, what does where he is from have to do with his stupid argument?


170 posted on 03/21/2009 5:28:58 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: central_va
Here's another myth Dodd, Fwank & Kennedy all your Yankee brethren. Oh wait, that's no myth.

Likewise, Jimmy Carter, Cynthia McKinney and Ray Nagin can all be said to be your southern brethren. And considering all three are, or started. as Democrats, their linkage to the Confederacy is much greater than that between the northern Democrats to Lincoln and his Republican associates. Jefferson Davis to Cynthia McKinney, the tradition of southern Democrats.

171 posted on 03/21/2009 5:29:10 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: beandog
Seems to me the Gov. of Kansas is a Dummycrat.

Considering that Georgia elected their first Republican governor since reconstruction this decade, I'd say Kansas looks nice and red.

But if you're a southerner then I don't expect you to know much geography.

172 posted on 03/21/2009 5:31:15 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: beandog
Seems to me the Gov. of Kansas is a Dummycrat. Not exactly the dark red heart of Republicanism.

Not at all like that GOP stronghold, Maryland.

Kansas has voted Republican for president in every election since 1964. We were voting Republican when the South was still slobbering over the Democrat du jour.

173 posted on 03/21/2009 5:31:39 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The two parties have switched idealogically, everyone knows that. With Dodd, etc. they are proud of their Yankee past. McKinney et al would rather die than honor anything conservative and southern.


175 posted on 03/21/2009 5:34:16 PM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The two parties have switched ideologically, everyone knows that. With Dodd, etc. they are proud of their Yankee past. McKinney et al would rather die than honor anything conservative and southern.


176 posted on 03/21/2009 5:34:40 PM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: central_va
The boots wore red leather boots idiot, or did they paint their legs red after shaving them? LOL.

Get all your history from "Outlaw Josey Wales" do you? They were leggings, either red or tanned in color. Nobody wears red boots. Jesus.

Obviously stained with the blood of running rebels.

177 posted on 03/21/2009 5:36:13 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I never claimed I lived in a GOP stronghold. I was responding to a poster who claimed that Kansas was the “dark red heart” of Republicanism. Can’t claim that and have a dummycrat as the Governor. Besides, where you “came from” has absolutely nothing to do with who you are now. If so, I “came from” Virginia, which until recently was pretty red.


178 posted on 03/21/2009 5:36:56 PM PDT by beandog
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To: Non-Sequitur
Obviously stained with the blood of running rebels.

Woops, your true colors are starting to show. Wanna take that back?

179 posted on 03/21/2009 5:39:12 PM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
Other than New Hampshire, there are NO Senators from the North that are rated higher than 50%. You really have no clue about what you’re writing. Not a clue.

Well if you're calling senators like Frist, McConnell, Graham, and Lott 'Conservatives' then I'm obviously not the one with comprehension problems.

Now, if you'll post an actual website then I'll be able to see how all the Northern senators actually stack up.

180 posted on 03/21/2009 5:40:53 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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