[Grand Old Partisan]

Every Confederate soldier was a Democrat. The hatred within the Democratic Party for the UNITED States of America, the Constitution, ands the flag goes back to the 1860s and beyond. See http://www.republicanbasics.com/ to read about a history book from the Republican point of view.

[Gurn]

And Lincoln was a lying, white supremecist tyrant.

Have you seen the movie, or do you have a point?

[Capriole]

Every Confederate soldier was a Democrat. The hatred within the Democratic Party for the UNITED States of America, the Constitution, ands the flag goes back to the 1860s and beyond. See http://www.republicanbasics.com/ to read about a history book from the Republican point of view.

Do check your facts. A lot of Confederate soldiers were not Democrats but supported the Constitutional Union Party, which was another party that put up a candidate (Bell) in 1860. The terms Democratic and Republican have swapped meanings in the intervening 143 years, and during the War it was the Democrats who supported the positions most Republicans embrace now.

Why are you are so consumed with hatred for Confederates and the South now, 140 years later? What is the source of your abiding bitterness toward all these people who are dead and have done you no harm? You sound like a lot of black people who can't get over the fact that their great-great-great-grandparents were slaves.

[rustbucket]

Every Confederate soldier was a Democrat. The hatred within the Democratic Party for the UNITED States of America, the Constitution, ands the flag goes back to the 1860s and beyond.

Let's see Jefferson Davis's "hate" in his farewell speech to the Senate:

If you will but allow us to separate from you peaceably, since we cannot live peaceably together, to leave with the rights that we had before we were united, since we cannot enjoy them in the Union, then there are many relations which may still subsist between us, drawn from the associations of our struggles from the revolutionary era to the present day, which may be beneficial to you as well as to us.

...if we must leave you, we can leave you with the good will which would prefer that your prosperity should continue. If we must part, I say we can put our relations upon that basis which will give you the advantages of a favored trade with us, and still make the intercourse mutually beneficial to each other.

Sorry. I don't see "hate" there.

If the Democrats hated the Constitution so much, why was the Confederate Constitution in most instances word-for-word from the US Constitution? The Democrats of the Civil War era revered the Constitution, while the Republicans in the North held there were higher laws than the Constitution and looked the other way when Northern states refused to honor their Constitutional pledge to return escaped slaves.

[Mudboy Slim]

"My book, "Back to Basics for the Republican Party", is a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view. My presentations to Republican groups often get standing ovations."

Perhaps, perhaps NOT!! But yer statement in #3 makes you look like an in-bred scalawag, my FRiend...MUD

[GOPcapitalist]

Every Confederate soldier was a Democrat.

Actually that too is not true. Some were Constitutional Unionists from 1860 and old southern Whigs, including some in my own family.