[ifinnegan]

Someone drop you on your head?

[Don Corleone]

Rewriting the facts about the “War of Northern Aggression”.

[rsobin]

People assign every possible motivation for going to war. The bottom line is always, every time and forever, money.

[soakncider]

“The great classical scholar and
Confederate Soldier Basil Gildersleeve remarked that the War was a
conflict over grammar—whether the proper grammar was ‘the United
States are’ or ‘the United States is.’ We have been using the wrong
grammar.” -Clyde N. Wilson

[achilles2000]

Well...now you’ve done it. The Lincolnolaters will be out in force with all the stuff Mrs. Grundy taught them in 5th grade and that has been reinforced by the usual suspects. Don’t you know that you aren’t allowed to point out that the War Between the States wasn’t only about slavery? You probably also entertain such heresies such as there is no real Social Security Trust Fund or that government schools are just a corrupt middle class welfare entitlement that destroys our children and our culture. Repent!

[onedoug]

I get the same pride upon hearing “Dixie” as I do when I can’t finish singing the “Star Spangled Banner” without welling up.

[central_va]

Let’s see Lincoln “freed” the slaves in the Confederacy by EO ( where have we seen a EO happy President before) which did nothing, really. The results of which were race/draft riots all over the Union and a hatred towards Lincoln that was almost universal. But Booth made him a martyr and the North now had a salve to sooth their shared guilt over destroying the Constitutional republic.

[SharpRightTurn]

BTTT

[mythenjoseph]

The Civil War was mainly fought over cotton...granted slavery was a part of the wedge put forth by Northerner’s ...the competition from the industrializing North with all the new immigrants were competing against the Southern states who had a great product in huge demand which at one point was more than a 5th of our nation’s GDP at the time. I am in the middle of reading a book on this very topic printed in 1960 . It is highly illustrated along with concise and factual text that seems to be without any bias either way. It is “The American Heritage picture history of The American Civil War” I would recommend this for grandchildren “IF” they are even taught this in school anymore.

[rockrr]

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book" - Howard Zinn

Yea, no thanks

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

Alexander H. Stephens - Vice President of the Confederate States of America