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To: stainlessbanner
Back to the original question. Of 3446 lynchings you stated, how many are directly related to SCVs?

That's a hard one to nail down, since "sons of confederate veterans" is a slippery definition. Are we talking about actual physical sons of enlisted soldiers and officers of the confederate army? Would they have to be leaders of the lynch mob or just members? In any case, no such statistics exist, given the nature of lynch mobs and the failure, if not outright complicity, of southern courts and law enforcement agencies to ever investigate, try and punish those mobs.

But just to put to rest that argument about "the northern states lynched blacks, too!" I'll simply concede that, tragically, you are correct. However, I'll point out that of the 3446 blacks lynched, a total of 352 were lynched in states the comprised the Union during the Civil War. And of that number, over 200 were in the border slave states of Missouri and Kentucky. Coincidentally, Texas alone also had 352 black lynchings, tying the entire North. They were beat by Mississippi, with 539, and Georgia with 492. So I guess you southern boys beat the yankees in that competition.

118 posted on 08/27/2004 12:37:16 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: Heyworth

Well well, looks like we have some rebel bashing going on here.Look guys, your right, people in the south all have 6 fingers and 4 toes, etc. Why on earth would my northern brethren be moving here in droves is beyond me. Then again, when you have a 6th grade education and slop hogs all day, hey, what do I know? Keep dreaming. The south has risen again. If you wondered what happened to the capital in those old northern cities, both human and money, look south.Looks like to me, from my travels up north, Gen. Sherman was on the wrong team. Well, its feeding time. Hogs eat a lot in a 6 month summer. Better get them coats out up there. Oh, and don't forget the long underwear.


119 posted on 08/27/2004 1:17:08 PM PDT by Atlanta ( Be the hammer or the anvil...)
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