I am the great-grandson of a Confederate officer. Yet for the life of me, I just do not understand why so many southern whites keep bringing up the War Between the States... It was 137 years ago d*mn it! It's all water LONG ago under the bridge! Whether Sherman was a brute (I think he was...) or Lincoln a true abolitionist (I think he was, relatively) or Lee a hero (of course he was) or Jeff Davis a fool (he was...) or whether they were all racists (by the standards of today, certainly)AND most importantly whether the Federal government at that time laid the legal precedence illigitimately for the modern giant tyrannical welfare state (I think it probably did...) is all immaterial now--
as the past is PAST.If we are going to build a better world for our children we can NOT be mired in fighting battles long ago lost... You sountherners have a lot more in common with Northern conservatives (however you may disagree about the War) than with Southern liberals don't you? Bill Clinton, case in point... Conservatives should be thinking about how we can improve things now, and in the future... not worrying so much about that awful war--which really was a very long time ago.
we old-line rebels are NOT re-fighting the WBTS;rather we are planning for a FREE and much improved SOUTHRON REPUBLIC!
as a rebel officer's desendent, you should be HELPING us!
for a FREE dixie,sw
Easy for you to sit at your screen and call Jefferson Davis a "fool." I can safely bet he was 1000X the man you ever dreamed of being.