[TwelveOfTwenty]

Why should I be ashamed of something that has nothing to do with me? If anything I'm tired of being told what I have to pretend from both sides. The left wants me to pretend boys are girls, and the confederacy amen corner wants me to pretend the confederacy wasn't about preserving slavery.

It's bad enough we have to deal with the democrats blaming us for their history, without the confederacy amen corner helping them.

[central_va]

The left wants me to pretend boys are girls, and the confederacy amen corner wants me to pretend the confederacy wasn't about preserving slavery.

Lincoln stated the goal of the war was not about slavery at all. He made that very clear.

[Pelham]

You ought to be more worried about being ignorant than being ashamed.

The confederacy was a democrat temper tantrum

This premise is popular with hacks who think that fake history will help them score points in current debates. Beck and D'Souza are two who have that habit. Maybe they are your source, you certainly haven't done any research in the subject. The Confederacy didn't have any political parties. Its officials were a mix of former Democrats and Whigs, including one of the four Whig US Presidents. In the North the Lincoln administration employed Democrats in important roles. VP Andrew Johnson, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Generals George McClellan, Benjamin Butler, John Dix. Ohio Governor John Brough. The Civil War wasn't "a Democrat temper tantrum" despite the firm belief of the illiterate.

But please don't embarrass the right by adopting the dems' history as ours.

I would be embarrassed if I was scolding someone over something about which I knew so little. But seeing you do it is pretty amusing.