[ought-six]

"Every Confederate was a Democrat."

Prove it. That's like saying every Yankee was a Republican. Wrong on both counts. My great-great grandfather was a Confederate cavalryman with Nathan Bedford Forrest, and he (my g-g grandad) was not a Democrat; he was a-political. He was a German immigrant who, like many other Southern troops, fought because his home was invaded. That's the only reason. He never owned a slave and didn't care a spit about politics; and, like most other Southern troops, he wanted only to be free to raise and provide for his family. If my home were invaded, I would do the same thing, and I wouldn't care one way or another what the invader's political beliefs were.

[Grand Old Partisan]

"That's like saying every Yankee was a Republican." -- highly illogical, so repeating my arguments, which I've made several times on FR, would be lost on you.