[Americanexpat]

Oh man, not thios shit again.

[RC2]

Nothing to worry about here. s/ Our kids today don’t know anything about the Civil War, where it happened or why. That’s one reason the south should fly the Rebel Battle Flag..........if nothing else, the kids may ask what it’s for.

[PalmettoMason]

IBTTGTTSBR. (In Before This Thread Goes To The Smokey Back Room)

[piroque]

bump,,,later

[Sporke]

More yankee revisionist history. :)

[piroque]

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/confederate_president_jefferso.html

[Tribune7]

They should teach it accurately. The anti-slave faction was the Republicans. The pro-slave faction -- whether it be northern copperheads or southern successionists -- were Democrats.

Regarding the role of religion in the conflict they should learn the words to both Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic then compare them.

[skeeter]

Historian EJ Dionne Jr has spoken.

The "progressives" are mandating everything else, why not a state approved official version of history, too?

Fits right in with this crowd.

[org.whodat]

You mean the war of northern aggression will be spun again.

[Forgotten Amendments]

The memo is out. Chrissy Matthews was spewing this last week. I guess it's the talking points for the holidays. My guess is: next will be Gerson.

[Dr. Sivana]

As soon as you call it the “Civil War”, you are already spinning.

I am a CT Yankee who simply calls it the War of 1861. That is the most neutral term I can come up with.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I can see the Black Racists and Bigots coming out and whining and lying about all Civil War.

This would be a good time for all those on FR to study up on Civil War history. Get to know the facts before the fiction starts getting spewed out

[Othniel]

I read two extremely illuminating books on the CW this year: April, 1865 and The PIG to the Civil War. Both were incredible, both gave the facts, and both had the take that the South was perfectly within its rights to split off from the Union. The latter gave an imaginary scenario whereby the South gave up on slavery (which, acc'd to the former, they were getting really close to doing anyway) and rejoined the Union in time to fight in WWI. No malice, no "reconstruction," none of that stuff. I think it should rightly be called "The War of Northern Aggression" as well as the "Civil War," and that as the assorted dates are marked, that the South as a whole, with the lifestyle, the economy, etc., needs to be seen for what it was: a bunch of guys who didn't like being pushed around by those they didn't feel had a right to do so.

Just my 2 cents. My GGGrandfather fought in the Iowa Regulars and was very active in Veterans' Affairs after the war, and I've only set foot in the south twice, so I guess I'm a Yankee.

[Graybeard58]

I predict 500 replies. I'll be the first to get things going.

Abraham Lincoln was a Saint.

[RegulatorCountry]

Yes, let’s just stop spinning it. Secession didn’t suddenly become verboten and “union” sacrosanct just because the southern states attempted it. The Constitutionality of secession had long been assumed, even by secessionist movements in prissy New England.

Yes, let’s just stop spinning it. The African slave trade was almost entirely a creature of New England shipping interests, with a majority of so-called “slave ports” being decidedly north of the Mason-Dixon.

Yes, let’s just stop spinning it, the 3/5ths Compromise, so ignorantly attributed to “racist” southerners and demagogued to infinity, was a compromise insisted upon by northern interests, who did not want slaves counted as fully human in order to prevent Congressional reapportionment from shifting political power to the south.

Yes, let’s just stop spinning it. I could go on for quite a while.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie ping y’all

[FortWorthPatriot]

I have always understood civil war to be defined as a war where two factions fight for control of a government. The “civil war” fought in the United States was not that, but rather a desire by one side to be completely separated from the other and autonomous, which would be aptly titled the “War of Southern Independence.”

[sionnsar]

stainlessbanner

[bushpilot1]

Oh please..both sides made money from slavery...

“Anderson once quipped dryly that “the increase of her darkies” had made him rich”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/a-quiet-mans-arrival/#more-70481

[Repeal The 17th]

I sure will miss Non-Sequitur on this thread, NOT.