Posted on 12/28/2023 7:26:59 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley sparked a backlash on social media, including from conservatives, after she was asked about the cause of the Civil War and didn't mention slavery in her answer.
Haley, who served six years as South Carolina's governor and then two years as the ambassador to the United Nations, was asked by a voter during a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, on Wednesday to identify the cause of the Civil War.
"I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run," she said. "The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?"
The man who asked the question replied that he was not the one running for president and wanted to hear her answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What a parody of a resume.
I am not a Nikki Haley fan, but I would have given a similar answer, saying that the war grew out of a dispute over the role of the federal government vs. that of the states.
********
True, but the overriding “dispute” was about slavery. There were other disputes adding to the bitterness, such as tariffs; but without the dispute over slavery, there would have been no civil war.
I am not a Nikki Haley fan, but I would have given a similar answer, saying that the war grew out of a dispute over the role of the federal government vs. that of the states.
********
True, but the overriding “dispute” was about slavery. There were other disputes adding to the bitterness, such as tariffs; but without the dispute over slavery, there would have been no civil war.
“but why was this a question?”
Because the guy is a douche bag pseudo intellectual from an almost meaningless upper Northeast state which has a tiny, backwards population that still thinks it’s 1970 and that the South is full of Klansmen.
Stupid SOB could move all of a few hundred miles to NYC and get a lovely apartment above 125th st (er, “Martin Luther King Jr Blvd”) and then let us know why he worries about such crap.
Or worse, why he thinks an upper caste Indian Nationalist would have any useful opinion on such.
Because the guy is a douche bag pseudo intellectual from an almost meaningless upper Northeast state which has a tiny, backwards population that still thinks it’s 1970 and that the South is full of Klansmen.
Now your northern n*****’s a negro
You see he’s got his dignity
Down here we’re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** free
Yes he’s free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he’s free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They’re gatherin’ ‘em up from miles around
Keepin’ the n*****s down
-Randy Newman (Rednecks)
not mentioning slavery is no more wrong/inaccurate than not mentioning the economic causes of secession and war - a la Ken Burns and the PC Revisionists.
Yeah, a good ol’ boy...from LA?!
First good comments by her that I’ve read about in a long time...
Economics (ie tariffs and federal subsidies)
slavery
The federal government’s usurpation of state powers
All 3 issues were tied together.
“The US had blockaded Japan”
We and an economic embargo against Japan for such items as Oil, steel, scrap metals,etc.
A blockade would have involved U.S. Navy ships steaming outside Japanese harbors physically preventing ships from entering or leaving.
She may as well have referred to it as “The War of Northern Aggression” LOL
Trump’s hero Andrew Jacksonstood with the Union, Trump wo7ld have stood for the Union. So tired of lost cause nonsense.
South Carolina were the agitators.
Berlin, NH is one of the most economically depressed places in all of the state. There WERE two paper plants there at one point. They are both now closed. The two main employers in the area are a state and federal prison. There is also a small lumber mill in Milan just north of there. The only other positive economic impact is the ATV park in the town. They hold a annual festival that brings in thousands of people riding ATVs around town.
Just a few years ago you could have bought several apartment houses in town for under $60K. So, I suspect this person asking the question was a former disgruntled mill worker. Almost everyone living there is.
Good luck with that. I would like to ride the great racehorse, Secretariat, but he's been dead since 1989. Well...so much for my fantasy. Yours is just as unlikely.
It was about Treason against the United States.
It is the CONFEDREATES who stand with the left. They both hate thevUnited States as founded. They both dispised what the Decleration stood for. You live in the United States, not a breakaway Republic that wad defeated.
Yes, it was a states right issue, but the foundation of that issue was slavery. The large southern landowners and honestly a few in the north, needed slaves to keep their plantation based agricultural system alive. Nobody in Washington cared about whether women were allowed to vote, how states allocated their tax revenues or ran their educational systems. But there was a huge push to abolish slavery and Washington did care about that. And the push by the federal government to end slavery and the push back from the large southern landowners is what led to the firing on Ft. Sumter.
You’d think a two-time governor of the state Ft. Sumter is located in would know that.
You make it sound like China invaded Japan. Japan was in expansionist mode and invaded China and Manchuria. China was a US ally and so we stopped selling Japan oil and raw materials. Not sure we ever blockaded them prior to our entry into the war. The Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor to bring us into the war. The bombed Pearl to cripple the Pacific fleet so they could run wild in the Pacific with little opposition. The Battle of Midway was supposed to be another Battle of Tsushima where they would destroy the American naval presence in the Pacific and force us to sue for peace. It didn’t work out that way obviously.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.