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Another thing the neo-Rebs don't seem to understand is that the South is very important to this country. They have the attitude that the North sees them as second-class citizens. This is not so. Otherwise, the North would have just let them go. The South was worth fighting for and that is why the Union was willing to expend hundreds of thousands of lives in an all-out effort to retain it. Since the Civil War, the South has made very valuable contributions to the success of this great nation. I don't think we would have been able to do it without them.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, "We either hang together or hang separately." I strongly believe that had we allowed this country to split apart in 1860, we would have continued to fragment to the point where we would become a bunch of squabbling nations, constantly warring among each other, much like Europe over the past few centuries. Our strength is dependent upon our unity. There is no way we could have become the premier superpower on Earth and the greatest beacon of hope for freedom in the history of civilization, had we allowed the South to tear away from us.

Another thing the neo-Rebs don't seem to understand is that the South is very important to this country. They have the attitude that the North sees them as second-class citizens. This is not so

Bullshi#!! Excuse my language but that at least here in NC is an outright lie. We are seen as second class and not 'up to snuff' as we say by them. There were only two reasons the north wanted the South and had to fight. Our money (taxes) and our raw materials(cotton being one). If we hadn't had either, the war probably would not have started.

Today? Almost everyday I hear comments and jokes about Southern culture on television, radio, print media, and even here on FR. How we're all dumb rednecks and you wouldn't want a Southern surgeon or a Southern banker. How we do things differently down here and snide little comments about our culture. Jefferson himself saw us as 13 separate states, the only need for the Constitution was to join in international affairs and a few housekeeping affairs at home, not the Empire we are today

The north and the South are different from culture and belief to just daily living. We have become the dumping ground for 3/4 of the nation as a vacation spot. Somewhere you might want to go for a few years but not stay. To make fun of the slow Southerners. I was born and raised in the South, and God willing I will never leave. I don't know what you might have experienced to make a comment like that about Southern culture, but from someone who experiences it every day you are wrong

Another thing the neo-Rebs don't seem to understand is that the South is very important to this country.

Don't know what a "neo-Reb" is, but there is no doubt to the truth of your (under)statement that the "South is very important to this country." The North, meantime, and their waves in the metropolises of the South, are a hindrance to the South and West. I think since the North wouldn't let us be free of them, we should just kick them out of the Union next time. We (meaning we, the people of the South, not scalawags like Slick) like the Constitution, not Collectivism. We'd like to live under the Constitution, not Collectivism. May we choose to do that peacefully?

Now, about the term "neo-Reb:" If you are referring to Confederates, we have been Confederates for generations; there is nothing "neo" about it. And since we are the ones that wanted to preserve the Founders' dream, how are we the "rebels?"