Posted on 02/27/2009 6:55:09 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Remember how during the run up to the election, all the left pundits and talking heads and their compatriots in the Old Media said that no white person would vote for Barack Obama? Well, despite the singular fact that Barack Obama convincingly won the popular vote in a country that sees a majority of its voters are white, the Old Media is still insisting that all southerners are slavery-loving, neo-confederates that are no different than they were in 1860.
For the Washington Post, Robert S. McElvaine is here to tell us in "The Red, the Blue and the Gray" that Barack Obama is "just like Lincoln" in the same way that Lincoln didn't get the south's vote in 1860. Professor McElvaine also intimates that this is because the south is little different than it was in 1860.
Bet you southerners didn't know that you are all still slavers and racists, eh?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Well, I believe there are “good” DamYankees and there are “bad” DamYankees. I even know some of both varieties.
But they are still DamYankees! They moved South and stayed!
As for me, I am American by birth and Southern by the Grace of God!
Lincoln's involvement with the Corwin Amendment goes well beyond tepid.
From a quick search: "In 1861, a proposed amendment, was signed by President Lincoln. This was the only proposed amendment that was ever signed by a president. That resolve to amend read: "ARTICLE THIRTEEN, No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." (In other words, President Lincoln had signed a resolve that would have permitted slavery, and upheld states' rights.) Only one State, Illinois, ratified this proposed amendment before the Civil War broke out in 1861.
The Corwin amendment would have reinforced what the Constitution already guaranteed in terms of slavery, so it made no real difference in that "peculiar institution".
In answer to your question, it appears that slavery wasn't the only consideration. Many contend that tariffs were the overriding issue of secession, and Mr Charles Adams makes a compelling case in that regard with his book "When in the Course of Human Events".
Or, all those white folks at a Darius Rucker (formerly Hootie of Hootie & the Blowfish now country music star) concert with Brad Paisley in "racist" Louisiana.
McElvaine is also a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
Great list. I could add so much to that. I am so tired of libs treating “southerners of color” as pawns. They are my people.
"so you got mad & LEFT??? GOOD riddance."
free dixie,sw
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