Posted on 07/16/2007 1:29:21 PM PDT by Kaput
I’M AFRAID I WOULD HAVE HAD TO PUNCH THAT SOB RIGHT IN THE MOUTH......
And, don’t forget like the Northeastern elites do, that American slavery started in the North and survived there for a very long time. In fact, Nova Scotia was the first and longest existing North American slave port.
The reality is that slavery died in the North first, not from any moral consideration, but because of the shift there from agrarian to industrial pursuits.
My ancestors painted themselves blue with woad, practiced human sacrifice, and worshipped at big rocks.
I guess I had better get busy.
And that's precisely why I'm a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans.
One thing southerners would do well to learn is that the Confederacy and the South are two different things. The Confederacy was the product of a political class looking out for the welfare of the institution of slavery for the benefit of a rather narrow group of people.
If Southerners want to honor their ancestors, they will condemn the Confederacy that misused the honorable instincts of the southern people.
Dixie Ping
If England can celebrate its history, which at times has been the bloodiest in the World — beheadings, kidnappings ect — then I have the same right.
Uneducated? A great many are, and that’s simply because they are lazy.
But, we still have our manners.
Something the North was never very good at.
:)
Would Blacks be better off today if they had not been brought to North America?
Things that the South gave to America: American clothing, love of the outdoors, country music, rock music, blues music, soul music, bluegrass music, zydeco music, the majority of settlers of the Western states, the oil that drove America’s economy for much of the 20th century, Gone With The Wind, the vast majority of America’s military brass, Mardi Gras, soul food, gumbo, bourbon whiskey, The Hurricane, the majority of soldiers in the U.S. military today, the vast majority of American blacks, the above ground cemetary, RC Cola, Coca-Cola, and a whole lot more.
I am with you!
And slavery could have been outlawed at the onset of the US but nobody listened to John Adams and too many of the founders had slaves including that hypocrite Thomas Jefferson.
Slavery never helped anybody in the south but the planter class. Sure didn’t help the farmer or the good country people.
Thanks for the Ping.
Those who would destroy the symbols of our History are no different than the Taliban who love to destroy the symbols of Bhuddism remaining in Afghanistan.
You mean burning libraries is not the pinnacle of enlightenment?
Shakespeare??? Don't need that. Nobody talks like that anymore, anyhow. :)
It was also extremely cost ineffective. Why pay to house, feed and doctor slaves when you can just hire immigrant laborers, at slave wages, for a fraction of the cost.
I sent my daughter to UA to learn manners, she did. I am A Yankee Yankee.
Of for the love of God, everyone down here knows what the war was really about, state’s rights and tariffs. It all went back to the nullification crisis of 1832, and before you go and trash the Confederacy, remember, one of the most important developers of conservative thought was John C. Calhoun.
You want to talk about the history of the Southern people, fine, here is the straight history. Prior to the war, the South had almost no indigency whatsoever. The only indigents that there were usually consisted of immigrants in the port cities and those people who are always indigent, such as the mentally infirmed, the single mother (traditionally, etc)
The vast majority of the Southern population, on the average, had a better standard of living than the vast majority of the Northern population. The South was a place where someone could come with little to no money and within a couple of years, they’d be among the most propserous citizens if they worked hard. Not everyone was a planter or a merchant. Most Southerners in the rural areas were yeoman farmers who did very well for themselves, and almost all of them could afford the yearly trip to whatever cosmopolitan port they were closest too.
Southerners were much more tolerant of religious differences then their northern counterparts. In the north there was rampant anti-Semitism, rampant anti-Catholicism, and all sorts of other religious bigotries. In the South, we had a religiously mixed gentry. In the North, Jews were usually condemned to poverty in the ghettoes, in the South, they were often among the leading citizens. It was a beautiful society totally destroyed by the war and “reconstruction”
There was no pervasive poverty in this region before northern social engineers decided to loot it for their own gain, and every problem that we still face today can be traced back to the period between 1865-77.
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