General Longstreet...but not until after the war.
Today is also the anniversary of FDR's death. Would he have been elected President of the US in 1932 if the Confederates had not fired on Fort Sumter in 1861?
Yes, but not after the war.
Well he was a Democrat so he got 100% of the electoral vote from the former Confederate states. In fact, "Big Government" FDR won all of the South every time he ran for president. 100% of their electoral votes in four elections!
I don't know where the myth comes from that somehow the North was solely responsible for creating big daddy government. There were never bigger pork barrel hogs than the so-called "conservative" Democrats of the pre 1970s south. (Called that by the left-wing media trying to demonize real constrvatives in the rest of the country).
Those guys loved Federal money and would take as much of it as they could get and the only state-right they gave a damn about was the un constitutional "right" to segregate and disenfranchise blacks. They were not fiscal or constitutional conservatives in any sense of the word. They would vote for any Federal power grab if there was money in it for them and their states.
free dixie,sw