Hey, I grew up in the South. Born in Tallahassee 1952, lived in Orlando, Montgomery. I was only out of the South for 2 years before 4th grade. Moved all over because my Dad was in the Air Force.
I am not a moral relativist. What's wrong is wrong.
I had to put up with years and years of school bussing out of my neighborhood for racial reasons. My local school was a "separate but equal" black school - a piece of junk. My school district bussed me past it to a nice white school every day for 2 years.
So I'm not a big fan of the Confederacy OR its aftermath.
Too bad. Maybe you should blame the Yankee bastards that forgot that the States were sovereign.
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I had to put up with years and years of school bussing out of my neighborhood for racial reasons. My local school was a "separate but equal" black school - a piece of junk. My school district bussed me past it to a nice white school every day for 2 years.
So I'm not a big fan of the Confederacy OR its aftermath."
Your discontent is misplaced and would be honset and better spent if you placed the blame on the southern Jim Crow democrats.