[azhenfud]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

[Texas Federalist]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

Good info. Didn't know that. How about the fact that during the civil war there was still legal slavery in the Union? The emancipation proclamation also didn't apply to slaves living in the North. They were freed by the 13th Amendment, eight months after the conclusion of the war.

[AnalogReigns]

e?, azhenfud wrote: What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

That really doesn't tell us anything though, does it, except that many more blacks (where the great majority were held in slavery) lived in the South at the time than the North. So what?

The whole Confederate flag issue is a crock...both the hypersensitive-bigotted NAACP/ACLU position AND the waving-the-flag-of-a-cause-defeated-140-years-ago-south-shall-rise-again crowd.

America is and has been one country, and we need to look to the future, not the past.