You need a trusted friend to explain that one to you. Nonanswer.
You made a broad baseless statement against all southerners not just the Brazilian Southerners and I replied to that slander.
No, I didn't. Are you unable to read who authored which post you're responding to?
Nonanswer.
I see I have to spell it out to you.
Saying that " Some of my best friends are......" is usually preceded by some condemnation of ........ and is typically usually used by bigots to deflect criticisms against themselves.
Archie Bunker saying "Don't get me wrong. Some of my best friends friends are black" after making some racial stereotypical slur.
A offensive
non offense defense. Got it now?
Calling the South’s most vaulted heroes "criminal conspirators" isn’t an insult?
IMHO, that puts you in the same league as the Radical Republicans who wanted Lee, Stuart and others hung as common criminals.
It is as insulting as those Leftist anti war protesters calling the Army in Iraq "murderers" and then hypocritically saying "but we support our soldiers".