I was interested in the content but dubious of the web source and it turns out I was right. It’s a scam for page views with the article being broken up across 8 web pages just chock full of ads of every stripe. Glad I keep tossing those AARP mailers in the trash...
#8 We’re all Americans. I disagree. The government goes to enormous lengths to make certain immigrants don’t lose their ethnicity. They teach them in their own language. I spoke with a man born in California to El Salvdoran parents. He spent his first 16 years in California public school. He said, “I quit. I hardly spoke a word of English. I was taught English by a Cuban worker. They were holding me down.”
This is commonly believed but actually not true.
The United States was used as both a singular and plural noun almost from the beginning, with a gradual shift from singular to plural in frequency.
The biggest jump in the shift came during and after the War of 1812, with another during the Civil War. The process was pretty much complete by 1900.
I grew up in Appomattox, VA - about 3 miles from the National Park. Our house and my father’s Texaco were on the road to Richmond (now US-24), so we dug up lots of minnie balls, pieces of uniform with buttons, 3 cannon shells (sombody with a metal detector found them in a field next to the Texaco), and a bayonet (my brother hung his rake on this one in our front yard). Next to the surrender grounds is the home of Joe Sweeney (5-string banjo).
Very poorly written. The end of slavery was not a disgrace, it was a triumph.
It is also odd to assign disgrace for the temporary continuation of a universal practice, rather than kudos for the nation (or part of it) being willing to pay the enormous price to end it.
The United States of America didn't invent slavery, nor did we introduce it to the shores of America.
When the Nation was founded and the Constitution written, the founders had to deal with the reality that half of the Country used slave labor and would have fought with England if they couldn't continue to do so.
There would have been no United States of America because much of the money and military talent came from Virginia...a slave state.
Slavery was only legal in the USA for 78 years, not the 400 years that all the race pimps whine about, before the American revolution, this was a British Nation.
Why aren't the black race baiters pissed at England and happy with the USA for ending slavery?
And lets not forget that we got the 14th amendment as well, but do you understand what it really means.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT- REVISITED
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whoru/message/2
The trend away from doctors home visits isn’t necessarily good. For surgery yes .
The left out the part about the ruling political thought changing from the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to “might makes right”.
Double Bag Barf Alert.
Yes, the Civil War changed my life. Some of my ancestors were burned out of AL during Reconstruction and went GTT. Other of my ancestors were born here during the Republic of Texas.
>But that year the Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists and refugees from other political parties to fight the iron grip of powerful southern Democrats.<
Well, knock me over with a feather. I saw the “AARP” and figured this would be a propaganda piece extraordinaire. Actually, the article is pretty balanced.
As far as I am conerned, 1865 sped up the demise of this country.
1. Made me proud to be a Southern boy.
2. Gave me Lee and Jackson to love.
3. Gave me Lincoln and Sherman to hate.
4. Pointed out how little I have in common with the culture of the Northeast.
5. Started the still-gathering momentum towards a totalitarian central government.
We lost the best President we ever had, Jefferson Davis. I shall remain unreconstructed for the rest of my natural life.
Before the war: “The united States are”. After the war: “The United States is”. States rights went to Hell. The Feral Government took over.
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Grimes co. Greys
http://confederateheritagemonth.com/heritage/2008/texas/grimes_county.php