[ladyjane]

the way the worst Southern whites talked about black Americans.

Of course northerners are never racist.

[atc23]

Of course northerners are never racist

Urk. Certainly not. There were more deserters from the Blue Devil army when these boys found out they were getting their legs blown off to "free the slaves" - than there were soldiers in the entire Southern Federal Resistance.

Slavery - 100 years later - gave birth to the tyranny of low expectaions entitlement culture. IMO