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Hi, yourself!
Hope things are going well!{smile}
Surely you jest, your fans have repeatedly peddled their nostalgic delusions on other threads about the RAT Rebellion and modern day attempts to tie the South to defending slavery as a test of loyalty.
The other thing that really changed this country is air conditioning. With the advent of a/c the South became livable for all those who were genetically programmed to endure heat, mosquitoes and humidity. Yankees in droves moved South to enjoy the high quality of life ... in comfort ... and the country began to lose its regionalism.
The responsibility for Jim Crow lies with two sources, and I have laid this out on other threads as well. Populists, who by and large, drew major support from Unionist areas, and of course, Reconstruction corruption, the abuses of which were blamed on the blacks. If the Southern elite had their way, blacks would have kept the vote because blacks could be easily persuaded to vote against populist demagogues who repeatedly demeaned them. Make this clear, it has always been the wealthy, educated members of Southern society who have protected the black population from the more violent racist elements.
The states that seceded had retained the right to do so when they signed on to the Union. The exercise of that right does not make them Traitors.IIRC, the State of Texas may still have the right to secede today. Maybe one of you TX FReepers can enlighten us on this.
This is what's so rich about all of you revisionists. You have some delusion that the WBTS was fought over slavery. But the problem is, you see, that you can't find one shred of evidence that the North went to war for that reason. It doesn't exist. Yet you strut your goodness for all to see like a preening peacock. Stupid is as stupid does. Not even A. Lincoln would sacrafice the union in order to abolish slavery. AND YOU KNOW IT.
When you want to admit that one fact I will take you seriously. Until then you are nothing more than a poorly educated, unaware, pitiful person with an agenda that has nothing to do with reality. Sorry for the attack but you aren't worthy of debate. You are a shill for public education.
I do not support glorification of Traitors whether Semmes, Benedict Arnold or any one else. And, of course, one must buy into Falsehoods in order to try and pretend that attacking United States property and personnel was A-OK.
What do I care if you are willing to ignore history and fact in order to defend those profitting from human misery or are insulted by the truth?
Nor were the leaders of the RAT Rebellion "conservative". Conservatives do not attack their Nation and follow fools. Because the Slavers feared losing their slaves they struck first. Fortunately they were idiots and mankind profitted from their incapabilities as the United States of
America crushed them.
Lincoln's greatness as a leader was exceeded only by Washington. Fortunately he was facing pygmies. Davis violated his "constitution" far more than Lincoln. But since tyranny was the ONLY way the Slaverocracy could rule it is not surprising.
It is a class and cultural thing, as well as education.As a child of the Deep South, I had never, ever actually observed racist attitudes until I moved .......... NORTH.
The brown shirts in Nazi Germany would agree.
Nah, they just let the GOV'T tell them what to do. Like good little boys and girls.
You saw the film with THE Dean Martin???
Man,you ran in some cool circles.
I saw the goat man in Georgia. Unless there is more than one "goat man."
I knew this thread was going to become interesting, but this is more fun than lashing five melungeons together on a 4-rocker porch.
Good point.I always find it strange that no black people I knew ever thought the"good old days"in the South were to be missed and were ever nostalgic to bring back those days.
I Do remember meeting blacks who would sometimes comment-maybe to test me-that"they didn't much like all this civil rights mess".But kick it with them on a Saturday night after a couple of beers and they offered up an entirely different perspective!
My in-laws, my wife, were on the forefront of the civil rights movement. My wife was a child and answered phone calls that called her N lover and hung up. My Father-in-law, an old Southerner of the Ralph McGill mold has told me that the reality is that in the South, whites hate the race and love the person, and in the North, they hate the person and love the race.
That is some funny stuff. The number of Confederate leaders who attempted to aid Blacks politically can be counted on one hand. The KKK was not formed by the lower classes initially but by one of the South's greatest generals. Nor were the members of the lower classes those who took over after the military forces were withdrawn.
Destruction of the Republican party and Black political power was the goal of the South's ruling class after the War. Loyal areas of the South, E. Tenn., Northern Arkansas, hill regions of NC, Alabama, had very few Blacks and were anti-slavery to a far greater extent than elsewhere.
You say you never observed racist attitudes till you moved North.
I differ slightly with you-I observed MANY racist attitudes in my three years in the South,but none of which I hadn't previously observed in the North!
I had never thought about it that way, but that pretty much describes what I have experienced.
I'll put on my flameproof underwear and wait for one of the resident cretins to call me a racist now. It has happened before and will happen again. I wonder sometimes where they come from and what attracts them to FRee Republic.
I lived for the first 32 yrs of my life, up North, in Chicago...then we moved to North Carolina, and lived there for 5yrs...
I saw racist attitudes, in both the South and the North...I agree with you, it was slightly differing, one area from the other, but the attitude was there....
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