[Grand Old Partisan]

Good point, though Lew Rockwell also describes as conservatives the southern Democrats who killed 400,000 U.S. troops in the 1860s.

[My2Cents]

Very well said. I suppose it's "conservative" to still be fighting against a national bank, too.

[Hacksaw]

Good point, though Lew Rockwell also describes as conservatives the southern Democrats who killed 400,000 U.S. troops in the 1860s.

Please keep the south bashing comments to the Civil War threads.

[GOPcapitalist]

Good point, though Lew Rockwell also describes as conservatives the southern Democrats who killed 400,000 U.S. troops in the 1860s.

If you read the historical documents of the time, you will find that the southerners were normally referred to as the ideological conservatives of the period. The newspapers identified them as the conservatives and they referred to themselves as conservatives. They also referred to the yankee factions as liberals and radicals.

As for those 400,000 troops, they were only shot because they were charging at the people who shot them with bayonets and arms intended for the exact same purpose in the reciprocal.