[dwills]

my south carolina and lousiana roots aside, depicting the confederacy in a positive light isn't conservative

it's traitorous propganda -- this is FREE Republic

[Burkeman1]

This Is Free Republic. I am from Massachusetts. My ancestors on my father's side came from County Mayo during the post famine years in the late 1840's. My Mother's side came in the early 20th century. We never cared about the South or about "Blacks" (does that make us rascists?)

But yet many Irish were taken from the boat they sailed into America on and then put on the front line in a war that had nothing to do with them. Traitorous?

1814- the first state to seriously consider Secession was? Massachusetts! Half my heart hopes we do again.

[billbears]

depicting the confederacy in a positive light isn't conservative

I beg to differ. The Confederate States of America wanted to maintain the Federal Republic of states and limit the federal government. However those in the north did not harbor the same view

The establishment of national banks, building loss leader railroads, internal improvements, and printing money at the federal level. Those were conservative for the time? Illegal suspension of habeas corpus, no congressional declaration of war, high taxation of one region of your own nation of states through a outrageously high protectionist tariff. That's conservative?