Andrew Jackson was a southerner, wasn't he? And he was the driving force behind the expulsion of the Cherokees - witness his famous statement about Marshall enforcing his decision regarding the Cherokees.
And the Cherokee unit in the Civil War was fighting in Indian territory, I believe, for their own perceived self-interest.
Andrew Jackson was a southerner, wasn’t he? And he was the driving force behind the expulsion of the Cherokees - witness his famous statement about Marshall enforcing his decision regarding the Cherokees.
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He was a southerner by culture - but he was a statist in ideology, and a totalitarian by nature. Being southern is damn sure no guarantee of quality. To our shame we produced not only Andrew Jackson, but also James Earl Carter and William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. It is not all Sequoyah and Jefferson.
The Confederacy promised them their own state.