No, I don’t see a trend, other than names of people banned. Are you going to tell me that the circumstances for each banning was identical? That there was no subjectivity involved? That there aren’t an equal number of Lost Cause Losers that have gotten the ban hammer?
I know, or think I know, the circumstances for several of them. capitan_refugio, with whom I had many cordial and informative exchanges, got bumped when he said to someone else that our kind host said something that he apparently didn't say. Whiskeypapa (aka "Wlat" from the way he mistyped "Walt" at the end of his posts) was very pro-Democrat and anti-Bush as I remember and apparently his statements to that effect got under someone's skin. #3fan was perhaps the person who posted arguments from Stormfront in his posts without identifying where they came from, making FR look bad. One of the Southern posters pointed this out.
I exchanged posts with one or two others on stainlessbanner's list. They were generally sort of obnoxious and sure to eventually rub some mod the wrong way.
That there aren’t an equal number of Lost Cause Losers that have gotten the ban hammer?
I'm sure that there were some on the Southern side. nolu chan was banned for quoting Lincoln and perhaps going over the line sometimes in decorum. That is what I remember anyway. Lincoln did say some offensive stuff that is not PC by today's standards. HistorianDorisKearnsGoodwad's posts were expunged from FR. IIRC, perhaps for plagiarism. One or two other Southern posters would get temporary suspensions for name calling. So would some Northern posters. If you know of any other banned Southern posters (or even "band" ones, to use the pun in my post 251), let me know.