"Sigh" if you want be we are going down a road that is fundamentally chaining the entire nation. Is your bias against the South going to paralyze you from saving the whole?
Just so we're clear, in my life I've lived in five Southern states (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Missouri and Texas) three Western states (Oklahoma, New Mexico and California) plus two Northern states (New York and Pennsylvania, where I live now).
In the army I was stationed in Germany.
I have traveled on business and vacation in every state except Alaska (sorry Sarah), and have relatives in every part of the country.
So I have no "bias" against anybody.
My acute "bias" is against politically motivated Big Lies, of which there seem to be a large number perpetrated in FR CW threads.
ejonesie22: "The real question will be, while you guys up north are busy still trying to write the history of 150 years ago to your favor..."
We're not trying to rewrite anything.
We're hoping to prevent pro-Confederates from telling lies about their past.
ejonesie22: "...are you going to stay so blind, so dedicated to being 'right' that you will let the nation fail because you don't want to be equated with some 'pro confederates'..."
FRiend, there is no way in h*ck Northerners are going to buy into a heaping pile of pro-Confederate mythology.
It just ain't going to happen, not now, not ever.
So give it up.
But as soon as you begin dedicating yourselves to the real truth of history, as soon as you confess that Southerners have advanced Big Government as much as anybody else, then, then, then we can all agree that things today are totally out of control and need serious remediation.
Then we'll be allies and FRiends, then we can let bye-gones be bye-gones, and I'll buy the first round of beer... ;-)