[okie01]

"Why can't I celebrate their talents...and judge their politics separately?"

How stand ye, then, on the likes of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, e.g.?

This is a test, though no grades will be issued. But, yes, I am interested in your response.

[liberallarry]

I assume you're talking about the military talents of Lee and Jackson? Since I've already said I appreciated Hitler's talents how can you even ask?

More broadly, I liked Griffith's films. I like "Dixie". I like the look of the Confederate flag. I like a lot of music coming out of the South. I like plantation architecture...and so on.

I'm not crazy about southern cooking.

All of which has nothing whatever to do with Southern politics or religion.