[Blackacre]

As usual, the North must punish the South for trying to be free.

When you talk about freedom, you seem to be forgetting the sizeable percentage of the CSA's population that had as much freedom as livestock.

And by the way, when will the North begin Reparations for the destruction of the South’s economy, culture, way of life, infrastructure, and history during the years of Reconstruction?

Probably about the same time that the descendants of Southern slaveowners are require to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves. Do you really want to have this discussion?

Why should the South continue to be part of a country that never has and never will have any respect for us?

Oh, poor martyred you.

They make fun of our accent, our culture, our way of life. They call us ignorant redneck hicks and portray us as woefully unsophisticated (as if being sophisticated is a virtue!).

Sophistification isn't a virtue? Anyway, I've lived most of my life north of the Mason-Dixon line. Most people here spend little or no time talking about what people do in Atlanta or Birmingham. This persecution complex is silly. I mean, if the South was so trodden-upon, why have 3 out of the 5 Presidents in my lifetime been from the South?

[nanetteclaret]

You live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Then I really don’t give a care what you think, because your worldview is radically different from mine. I’ll give up being “martyred” when you give up being “holier than thou.”

[stand watie]

just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the NORTHERN slave-OWNERS & the MANY northerners (including numerous "leaders of the abolitionist movement"!!!) who were invested IN slavery from it's first days until its end???

free dixie,sw

[central_va]

When you talk about freedom, you seem to be forgetting the sizeable percentage of the CSA's population that had as much freedom as livestock.

But the Northern savior said IT wasn't about slavery...

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.

    - Abe "The Illinois Butcher™" Lincoln