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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Come on. It's more fun for you guys when you can blame Sherman personally.
We can have a ‘black’ anything, any day, any college, any anything, but whatever you do, don’t use ‘white’, ‘south’, ‘confederacy’. That’s verboten.
You talking about those poor souls that believe everything taught to them in the government propaganda camps, aka, public schools?
Or are you talking about the politically correct slime ball politicians who dare not say a negative word about Lincoln, or any other icon of the black populace, for fear of losing his melanin enriched constituency?
Well, okay then, but I'm certain that there's a segment of the Russian population that considers Stalin a hero, too.
Or take for example the masses of Obamabots that literally worship at the feet of this false messiah. (I wonder how the libtard yankee history books are going to record Obonga?........)
It just irks the hell out you yankees that Southerners have Southern heros.
I guess you would prefer that we join you in genuflecting at the Lincoln Memorial.
Rather creative, wouldn't you say.
I gathered that you were a big fan of 'historical fiction' given your proclivities for citing yankee history books.
But my assertion stands that the Confederacy will always be linked and in many respect equated with slavery.
I don’t say it should or shouldn’t, just that it will.
My apologies! I had deleted some of that on mistake and it was a mistake because NOTHING would have drove NS up a wall faster than Tommy..Thanks for giving NS another sleepless night anyhow
Boy them snails don't slither far from them rocks {Computer}
Non-Sequitur ,
Let's talk my Kansas Red leg Yankeefied Lincoln worshiper..
Y'all know about that dirty three letter word called “job”?
Kinda like a Chihuahua and a pit bull..
Your pit bull lost three of his legs,two ears, plus half his tail..Your whipped Pit had to place a call to the dog pound for back up { Poor Irish Immigrants} To whip that tiny 3 pound dog
Ya- What a brave Northern Force Y'all had!!!
Destroy the Author if you can't fight the message
Good night my Friend
So you admit Sherman was responsible? He passively-aggressively let the southern holocaust happen? Ordering destruction is worse in my opinion, than actually carrying the torch himself. He could have stopped it, he was not THAT incompetent, even for a /expletive deleted/ Yankee.
Why didn't your rebel army stop it? It was the job of the reb army to protect southern property, not Sherman's. The rebs said they were an independent nation and then they cry because Sherman wont do for them the job they took upon themselves. Pretty sorry regime, that Confederate States of America.
I'll put you down in the defending the southern plunder by mongel Yankee army column. Great job.
Here is a small note on a truly DISCIPLINED Calvary: something alien to General Torchmen's posse.
HARRISBURG,
October 11 1862.
The following received at 10 a. m:
CHAMBERSBURG, October 11, via SHIPPENSBURG, 7 a. m. Governor CURTIN: Stuart's and Hampton's cavalry, about 3,000 in number, occupied the town last night. It was formally surrendered, on condition that private citizens should be respected and property not be wantonly destroyed. They took about 500 horses, including 10 of mine, but did not interfere with citizens or destroy anything. One regiment encamped before my door, and the officers spent most of night with me. They behaved very well, and talked freely about everything but their movements. This morning they have just commenced to move toward Gettysburg, and all about to move, apparently. They crossed Potomac yesterday morning below Hancock, so that infantry cannot be with them. It looks as if they were on a foraging expedition through Pennsylvania, by Frederick to Leesburg, or it may be that the whole army is there, retreating, to provide supplies and replenish horses and reach Richmond. The cavalry would not move farther from their army if they intended to return by Hancock. Should anything else transpire to-day, I will try and sent it to you. A. K. McCLURE.
A. G. CURTIN.
You mean mythical Southern heroes. The tales told about Lee and Jackson are more exaggerated than anything told about Lincoln.
I guess you would prefer that we join you in genuflecting at the Lincoln Memorial.
I wouldn't expect that. You're too busy worshiping at the altar of your Southron gods.
Rather odd, I would say.
I gathered that you were a big fan of 'historical fiction' given your proclivities for citing yankee history books.
Oh I'm a big fan of historical fiction. The difference between you and me is that I can tell fiction from fact.
Struck a nerve, did I? Well the Jayhawks went down to defeat so I can't crow too much.
Let's talk my Kansas Red leg Yankeefied Lincoln worshiper..
Drifting into rabid territory there...
Y'all know about that dirty three letter word called “job”?
Yep. Got one of them myself. What about it?
And if the pit bull loses to the chihuahua then what does that say?
Your pit bull lost three of his legs,two ears, plus half his tail..Your whipped Pit had to place a call to the dog pound for back up { Poor Irish Immigrants} To whip that tiny 3 pound dog.
Again resorting to Southron myth. What's your source for that one? "Gangs of New York"?
If I did that I'd first need a frontal lobotomy and become a rebel supporter.
He passively-aggressively let the southern holocaust happen?
Southern holocaust? Oh give me a break! Look through all of recorded history prior to the Southern rebellion and you show me a single instance where the losing side of a rebellion suffered less and was incorporated back into the body politic faster than the Southern U.S. You keep trying to paint the South as the victim. Since they started the war then every single thing that happened to them could truly be called 'self-inflicted'.
Ordering destruction is worse in my opinion, than actually carrying the torch himself. He could have stopped it, he was not THAT incompetent, even for a /expletive deleted/ Yankee.
Sure, he could have left it for the rebels, allowed them to continue supplying their armies and fighting the war. Or Sherman could destroy those supplies and keep them from Lee's army. He chose the later.
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