[Classicaliberalconservative]

First of all, that urban renewal was paid for by our municipalities, not the feds. Housing Projects on the other hand were federal mandates that were built all across the nation in rural and urban areas, including the South btw. Urban renewal I admit was a disasterous policy, sponsored by both liberal machine and reform elements in our urban areas, and guess what? I fully admit to it. So why will you not admit to the South's complicity in extending the life of slavery. There is a reason American slavery is called the "peculiar institution", it is because it was peculiar to the South through most of our history as an independent nation. Meahwhile, you still have not addressed all the federal funding the South receives from the feds. How is this funding not a major cause of our current problems with big government?

[wardaddy]

If you feel better to blame us then I will personally fall on the sword for you.

Is the evil of slavery something you just discovered or do you think it's just the worst thing ever.

I personally feel abortion and genocide are worse.

But to sate your zeal....(in my best Bill Clinton impression)...." I hereby confess that my kinfolks owned slaves...some had a few, some had a lot and some had none. I am sorry that those slaves were sold to slavers by their african brothers and carried over here on Yankee clippers in the Triangle Trade and that my kinfolks bought them.

I am happy though for their descendents because they ended up with the prize of living in the greatest country on earth which is a damned sight better than anything I ever saw in West Africa where I have traveled and worked extensively. They are also lucky their kin didn't end up in South America where they would likely have been worked to death or the Caribbean where they would most likely still be mired in a pisspoor life much like in The Gambia or Nigeria.

I'm complicit by default in that nastiness which is now viewed as the root of all evil relative to our noble parameters of today.

Oh yeah....and since we Southerners did all that bad stuff, shucks, that's the only reason Yankees have any problems today

We robbed you guys of your deserved bliss and I regret that.

We feel so bad about all those transgressions that we have decided to carry ya'lls water since ya'll have grown too weak and we do hereby swear to try to keep this nation from falling completely into the cultural and social morass exemplified by your wonderful vaunted cities up north.

Happy Now?

Now run along and shine up your Thaddeus Stevens portrait you keep by the bed.