It would have been more accurate to say I spent my childhood in TN. And yes I sat through history lessons where the teachers called it the war between the states or even maybe(long time ago) the war of northern aggression. I don’t believe though that being from any particular region dictates how you land on this issue. Put simply, John Brown attempted to start a rebellion among the slaves. They had more of a right to rebel than anybody in the world did or does(except for peoples being subjected to genocide) and certainly the south is way down on the list.
I beg to differ. It plays almost as much as one's race does on this particular subject.
I don't understand why the enslavement of Africans in North America seems to trump all other slavery and for that matter all unsavory things relative to their time in history in the eyes of many young folks today except to say the revisionists kicked my generations ass in the brainwashing department.
I would like to see the high and mighty on black race issues attack thug culture or abortion or inner city crime or black hatred of whites with the same vigor they do the Confederate Battle Flag or Dixie.