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.
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Only because he didn't bother including the last sentence in the letter.
...but to restore the Union and the revenues associated with it.
Hogwash. Federal tariff revenues had already almost doubled by 1863. Without the South.
“NonSeq is from Kansas, the dark red heart of Republicanism.”
You mean like Kathleen Sebelius?
If I had to guess, I'd say the girl scouts.
Or Rod Blagojevich?
Imagine a country without NE and CA. Heaven. That can’t happen without major conflict unfortunately. I am not even interested in reconciling at this point. I wish Yankee land and Mexifronication would go on a start their socialist utopias, leave us alone, peacefully. I can dream can’t I?
Nope. I'm a Yankee and very proud of it. Would you like to take back your Southron loyalties?
I don't see it that way. Southern Democrats have always believed in group-based, often racial, politics. Republicans from the 1850s until today have believed in opportunity to all. The old southern Democrats believed in certain people living off the sweat of others just as current Democrats, while Republicans have always believed in free markets and free labor for all. Cynthia McKinney may disown Jefferson Davis and Davis might have been horrified to see McKinney as one of his political heirs, but they both belong together in the same too-often racist and backward Democratic Party. As for men, I'll stick with the heritage of Lincoln and Reagan.
And, might I add, the Demoncrat party.
without even needing to look ahead I will bet the homey posse and GOP neoyankees are having an orgy on this thread.
nothing they hate more than America’s last reliable conservative demographic
So then by you your asinine definition, states like Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Wyoming can't be Republican while states like California, Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island, and Vermont are.
Non-Sequitur,
I have family who’s homes were burned by snivelling little yankees with their torches, since they couldn’t beat us fair and square.
In response to these and other arguments, I pose the following questions to those who defend what Lincoln and the North did to the South:
Does anyone believe that states like North Carolina and Virginia—two of the original thirteen states of the Constitution—would have ratified the Constitution if they had believed they would be forbidden from ever leaving the Union even if they felt they needed to do so? Does anyone believe that any of the original thirteen states would have ratified the Constitution if they had been told that, no matter what, they could never secede from the Union unless they managed to fight their way out?
If you’re saying secession is only acceptable if the seceding states can fight their way out, isn’t this nothing but mob rule, tyranny by the stronger, dictatorship by majority, might makes right?
Wasn’t Lincoln’s own Secretary of State, William Seward, correct when he said, a few months before the North invaded the South, “It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South”?
I repeat myself: no such thing as a conservative Yankee.
“Hogwash. Federal tariff revenues had already almost doubled by 1863. Without the South.”
Oh, you mean the income tax that Lincoln instituted. Yeah, you’re right: Lincoln tried to make up for the loss of Southern revenues by instituting an income tax (the first in America, by the way), a move that was so unpopular it posed a threat to his presidency.
“That’s OK. Avoiding military service has a long history in the South.”
Do you care to rescind that? Cite your source.
The term RINO is easier.
“Or Rod Blagojevich?”
Say what? No one ever said Illinois was a bastion of Republicanism. But someone DID say that Kansas was.
*stares*
Hmm...so let me get this straight. You all are sniping at each other based on one’s locale and for the actions of (dead) people that they had nothing to do with.
Huh.
Well, have fun with that.
She's the second Democrat elected Governor in the state..ever. You want to show me any Confederate state that comes within a country mile of that mark?
The South has a long and inglorious history of electing Democrats and suckling the Federal teat. Quite a contast from the Mid-West, or the North east of 50 yearrs ago.
Take a look at a color map from FDR's expansionist reign if you don't believe it.
A great way to pass the time til Jan. 2013. It sure beats looking at my IRA balance.
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