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So, I'm certain you know the definitions of these college degree words:
B.S. = Bull Sh*t
M.S. = More Sh*t
PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper

WOW! So now you're trying to tell us that academic accomplishments don't count? I do wonder why those fancy degrees correlate to more life income and accomplishments.

Now, that there is one more stretch.

So, what are your academic accomplishments that makes your opinion so much more valuable or accurate than PhD DiLorenzo?

Lincoln was no more a "tyrant" than any other wartime president, or indeed than was Jefferson Davis. The South lost for three main reasons:

Thanks for admitting that Lincoln was a tyrant. That's exactly what DiLorenzo had to say.

On a related note, exactly what did Davis do that made him a tyrant? Hell, Davis was President for only three years. There are/were monuments erected all throughout the South supporting Davis after the war celebrating him. I'm all ears to hear what he did that made him a tyrant to the people in the South.

Today's Southern suburbs, smaller towns and rural communities have much more in common with their Northern and Western equivalents than they do with Southern big cities like Atlanta, New Orleans or Houston.

Well, we agree on one thing. Inner cities of Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston are shitholes, just like their northern brothers and sisters. A big contributor is the migration of those escaping them wonderful cities in the north and west to the south for a better life due in part to the culture and better way of life. Just look at the crime statistics of those inner cities if you doubt.

If you believe that the suburbs and the rural south have the same culture and values as their Northern neighbors, you're simply making it up. Look at the county-by-county electoral map of the last election for a clue.

There you go. Just continue to make it all up with your ill-informed opinions.

icclearly: " So now you're trying to tell us that academic accomplishments don't count?
I do wonder why those fancy degrees correlate to more life income and accomplishments."

Are you trying to tell us that academics are always honest and truthful, never biased or politically motivated, never make up cr*p just to suit their favorite theories?

And your evidence for this is what, exactly?

icclearly: "So, what are your academic accomplishments that makes your opinion so much more valuable or accurate than PhD DiLorenzo?"

I actually do have degrees, and one of them is in history -- so I'm a "history buff" -- but what's more important is that I've now studied at Jim Robinson's Free Republic University for well over 20 years.

That makes me as well informed as anybody in subjects that really matter.

How about you, FRiend?

icclearly: "Thanks for admitting that Lincoln was a tyrant.
That's exactly what DiLorenzo had to say."

Naw...
Any fool can throw around words like "tyrant" -- idiot Democrats call Donald Trump a "tyrant".
It's just meaningless nonsense.

If you're going around calling every consequential US President a "tyrant", it just means your own brain is full of B.S. and M.S.

icclearly: "On a related note, exactly what did Davis do that made him a tyrant?
Hell, Davis was President for only three years. "

Everything that, in your fried-brain, makes Lincoln a "tyrant", Davis did, and more.

icclearly: "There are/were monuments erected all throughout the South supporting Davis after the war celebrating him.
I'm all ears to hear what he did that made him a tyrant to the people in the South."

Even the 20% of Southerners who were white adult men did not all agree with your love for Jefferson Davis.
There were many throughout the South who remained loyal to the Union and resisted Davis's efforts to conscript or enslave them.

icclearly: "If you believe that the suburbs and the rural south have the same culture and values as their Northern neighbors, you're simply making it up.
Look at the county-by-county electoral map of the last election for a clue."

Do you mean this map, showing Trump won 84% of all US counties and the majority of counties in 90% of states -- every state except Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut & Hawaii?