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To: GOPsterinMA
My 2 cents on the Civil War: If the assassination of Lincoln and the rule of the Radical Reconstructionists. If both of those things hadn’t happened, perhaps the divide that still exists wouldn’t be there.

Perhaps, but I believe that the divide as demonstrated by the neo-confederates here represent a tiny fringe and nowhere any sort of mainstream.

Most northerners (and by northerners I mean the traditional northern states, the southwest, western, and pacific northwest states, as well as the majority of the border states and significant portions of several southern states) aren't preoccupied with the WBTS other than from a historical perspective. Lost Causers, on the other hand, are totally obsessed and allow it to figure into every aspect of their day~to~day lives.

So you have a truly transformative event like a civil war and the reconstruction in which the "conquered" were afforded the most tolerant treatment of any failed rebellion to date, fast-forward 150 years to see that same region prospering better than most of the country, and still you have some curmudgeons who lament the passing of the failed rebellion.

In the final analysis those contrarian Lost Cause Losers are so few in number that they have to shout and act disruptively or else you wouldn't even know they're there at all lol.

110 posted on 12/26/2011 4:22:19 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Well said!!!

FWIW, my relatives didn’t get to the USA until the 1890’s at the earliest. So as far as the Civil War goes, I have no dog in that fight, never did.


111 posted on 12/26/2011 5:18:15 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (And who doesn't have baggage?)
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To: rockrr
Perhaps, but I believe that the divide as demonstrated by the neo-confederates here represent a tiny fringe and nowhere any sort of mainstream.

Ahhh, another member of 'the collective' who abhors individualism, liberty, freedom and truth. We must all be part of your 'collective', eh! Have your brown shirts been delivered back to you safely from the cleaners, herr punkrr?

aren't preoccupied with the WBTS

And so says the ever-present queen of the neo-yank False Cause Losers.........

In the final analysis those contrarian Lost Cause Losers are so few in number that they have to shout and act disruptively or else you wouldn't even know they're there at all lol.

Don't forget to polish your jack boots. We want you to look your best when you and your band of neo-yank False Cause Losers mount up to silence anyone who refuses to accept the propaganda from 'the collective'.

113 posted on 12/27/2011 2:40:37 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: rockrr
Most northerners (and by northerners I mean the traditional northern states, the southwest, western, and pacific northwest states, as well as the majority of the border states and significant portions of several southern states) aren't preoccupied with the WBTS other than from a historical perspective. Lost Causers, on the other hand, are totally obsessed and allow it to figure into every aspect of their day~to~day lives.

I guess you don't get it. I don't care what happened in the South beyond thinking that the death and destruction was unnecessary. I care about things here in the North. I see the North-South divide more as a FreeRepublic-DemocratUnderground sort of thing.

Actually, as I became interested in American History as an adult my focus was upon the Founding Era. I couldn't really understand why so many people made such a big deal about the "Civil War." But when I began to search for what ended so many of the principles the Framers enunciated and put into our Founding documents, most of the time that search ended with Abraham Lincoln. And so I began to read more. It's not pretty, but it is our history.

ML/NJ

118 posted on 12/27/2011 6:34:39 AM PST by ml/nj
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