David Frum Freaks Out Over Sarah Palin’s Supposed Racism

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[Defiant]

The Frums were Canadians then and now, so what would they know?

[evilC]

Frumbag

[CedarDave]

Which is to say the totalitarian types who put their faith in human slavery LIVED IN THE UPPER MIDWEST. The members of the Union Armies who destroyed the slave regime of the South LIVED IN THE LOWER MIDWEST.

I think we need to define terms here. I was thinking of the early settlers of western PA, Ohio and Indiana and not Kentucky or the western part of Virgina. I believe the Mason-Dixon line defined free vs. slave states at the time of the writing of the Constitution.

In any event, my main point remains -- without a starting point of freedom for whites there would be no freedom later for people of color.

[trappedincanuckistan]

Low. I mean seriously David take issue with her positions on the issues if you want (come out and say you’re for high taxes, more spending, more debt and less individual freedom). Those kinds of personal attacks are how the left debates. Maybe you’d feel more at home at the NYT or WAPO.

[jla]

"demowimp"

LOL Perfect!

[muawiyah]

The Mason Dixon Line was a boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

That's all it was. There was slavery in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut ~ and anywhere else "they" could get away with it.

Just who did you imagine built all those stone walls?

The history of the Upper Midwest doesn't really get going until AFTER the Civil War ~ until then all you had was Michigan and Wisconsin.

The Lower Midwest starts at Zanesville Ohio and extends to the Mississippi River. It is bounded on the South by the Ohio.

Pennsylvania is its own thing ~

Later on ~ early 1900s ~ the US began REDEVELOPING the South ~ and industry began to move in. Louisville KY became, to a degree, "Midwestern" at that time, but most of the state of Kentucky retained its Southern Character.

Someday you should look up which states provided how much of each army in the Civil War. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio formed the backbone of the Union armies. The Northeastern states and New York also served but they had substantial populations who may have been opposed to the extension of slavery but otherwise weren't all that interested in eliminating it.

Kentucky split and like Maryland and Missouri provided troops to both sides. Virginia REALLY split ~ into three parts in fact. Northern Virginia was quickly occupied by the Union Army at the outset and a rump state legislature was set up. West Virginia was even admitted as a separate state. The core of Virginia was later re-admitted as the state of Virginia and Northern Virginia was "grafted on" after the settlement.