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All that being said, don’t take this post as personal N-S, you’ve been cordial and well thought out in all of my dealings with you, even though I disagree with your assumptions and conclusions. More of less I’m just getting fed up with the whole Southerner=Racist meme that seems to prevade these threads just under the surface.

These neo-Yankees are have proven their fascist leanings over the years. Go back thru the archives, they have been at this Southern bashing for a long time. When somebody stands up to their BS they play the race card, right on que. Somebody needs to explain what Free Republic is to them, for the 1,000,000th / time. I wish they would go to the DU where they would fit right in.

"When somebody stands up to their BS they play the race card, right on que."

I've seen nobody "playing the race card."

What we insist is that slavery, and only slavery, was the reason the Deep South began seceding in late 1860.

And for precisely that reason -- because it was only then all about slavery -- the Upper South and Border states did not at first secede.

It only became about something other than slavery after Davis ordered the firing on Fort Sumter, the results of which gave Virginia and other Upper South states the excuses they needed to claim secession on account of Federal "abuses."

Of course, if you could ask the average central Virginia farm-boy why he fought for the Confederacy, he would certainly tell you: because d*amn Yankee armies invaded our lands.

If you asked most any farm-boy from Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Maryland or Missouri whether they cared a whit about slavery, they'd answer: not really.
What about fugitive slave laws? Naw.
What about that proposed new Morrill Tariff? Say wha?

Remember, Upper South and Border states all stayed with the Union, until Davis was successful at making it an issue of "Northern Aggression."

Then many switched sides.