[Hobsonphile]

I agree with you on this. I concede the complexity of the Civil War period, but the Confederacy was no bastion of liberty, and to portray it as such is a distortion.

[Polybius]

I concede the complexity of the Civil War period, but the Confederacy was no bastion of liberty.....

Neither was the nation whose first President was the slave owner whose portrait is on the One Dollar bills in your wallet and whose birthday we are celebrating today.

Why is it that the only Americans who bear the historical brunt of Political Correctness regarding slavery are those who defended their Southern homes between 1861 and 1865?

George Washington and one of his 316 slaves.