[southernsunshine]

“Kind of funny how people who play the populist card with such ferocity love to dress up and cavort like the ruling elites of a slaveowning society.” (x)

Hmmmm.....guess you’d consider these people in Ohio kind of funny too:

http://www.ormb.com/

If you browse their photos of previous balls, you’ll see both men and women in period attire. Yes, the blue uniform is prominent.

Reckon the Union leaders were just some guys who got together over beers in a garage? Could they have possibly been (gasp!) ruling elites? Surely there weren’t any professional politicians among them! And surely not a slave owner among them ever, oh, the horror!

I don’t find it necessary to try and psycoanalyse the folks having a ball in Ohio, I think they’re just honoring their past and having fun. Did it ever occur to you that it really can be just that simple?

[campaignPete R-CT]

Ohio was home to the most extreme of the Radical Republicans. They are practicing up for the opportunity to crush Confederate revival.

The lady on there with a phone number, Heather Nichols, is a big fan of Ulysses S. Grant.

[mstar]

“Kind of funny how people who play the populist card with such ferocity love to dress up and cavort like the ruling elites of a slaveowning society.” (x)

"LIKE ??"

gads these people really have a problem if that is all they see.

So let's make the next Confederate Ball if they will have us . . . with period dress . . .should be just good fun. I like to have fun don't you.

Just now home from the shop and worn out. Hope everyone is Ok.

[x]

Reckon the Union leaders were just some guys who got together over beers in a garage? Could they have possibly been (gasp!) ruling elites? Surely there weren’t any professional politicians among them! And surely not a slave owner among them ever, oh, the horror!

But y'all are forever going on about the evil Yanqui elite that oppresses you. You pretty much take it for granted that Lincoln was a tool of the railroads, banks, and manufacturers.

Your own Confederate leaders were also quite wealthy and privileged men, perhaps even wealthier than their Union counterparts, but some of you just don't see that.

I don’t find it necessary to try and psycoanalyse the folks having a ball in Ohio, I think they’re just honoring their past and having fun. Did it ever occur to you that it really can be just that simple?

Sure. For them it is. They're not the ones obsessing over the Civil War the way the secessionist klavern here is.

I doubt they think that everything that happened since 1865 has been a mistake, or that they have that strange mix of hyperpopulism and superelitism that y'all do.