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To: stainlessbanner

Many Confederate sympathizers up North, too. Thanks for pointing that out


107 posted on 05/22/2005 6:46:23 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Many Confederate sympathizers up North, too. Thanks for pointing that out

That's true. Because of so many Northern Copperheads and Southern Unionists, the Civil War is a pretty poor vehicle for regional chauvinism. But we have many Northerners who seem to think that location imputes the moral purity of the abolitionist upon every soul north of the Mason-Dixon line. Likewise, they are Southerners who cannot separate an attack on the CSA and slavery with an attack on the whole region. I don't see it being a sign of disloyalty to one's ancestors or an abandonment of Dixie to admit that Lincoln was a great man and the Union cause had more right and less wrong than the Confederate side.

110 posted on 05/22/2005 7:27:46 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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