Posted on 11/15/2004 11:19:28 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
*In case it's hard to read, on the Pre-Civil War Map, the red areas were slave states and the brown areas were territories open to slavery, while the green areas were free states and territories.
*These distinctions eerily correspond to the red states vs. blue states on the 2004 Election Map ~~ i.e., the blue (Kerry) states correspond to the pre-civil-war free states and territories, while the red (Bush) states correspond to what were the slave states and territories.
*To me, the images (and subsequent comments) simply point out that we as a country cannot, or refuse to, face difficult racial issues.
*I think the mentality which allowed certain parts of the country at a certain time in our history to accept the violent subjugation of an entire human race ...
*By using the headline "Free States vs. Slave States", an immediate deception is perpetrated that continues to deceive right through all following commentary. These were philisophical differences in forms of government and policy, not whether or not black people should be free.
*It is so hard for me to understand the wailing coming from the Dems on the slave map issue.
*Blue states versus Red States means nothing!
*1. The republican party (and the dems too) are very much different in character and ideal than they were 140 or so years ago.
*2. Jon Koppenhoefer makes a sensible and compelling argument but I want to focus on the slave/free map.
*The last major battle of the American civil war may well have been over LBJ's great society; we've been fighting continuously for 140 years.
*It would give more seats to California, Florida, Texas, North Carolina and other large and growing states, without taking away the one (minimum) Representative for Wyoming's 400,000 citizens.
Of course, when these states supported slavery and Jim Crow, they were run by democrats.
Exactly, Kerry states have always been opposed to liberty and the rights of man. That explains everything.
I apologize to the good people of Kansas. (And of course, cough cough, the Dems were the pro-slavery party while the Pubs supported freedom.)
When the Russians ran it, maybe.
}:-)4
It would have been smart of the libs not to go there but if they were smart, they wouldn't be libs.
They are overlooking that all slaveowners were dumbocrats.
And Lincoln, as the libs habitually ignore, was a Republican.
One of the original Boyz in De Hoods...
How many people remember that in 1936 FDR carried every state except Maine and Vermont? How many people remember that during twelve years of FDR's Presidency there was not a single solitary legal abortion of "gay marriage?"
Why do people who idolize FDR (1933-1945) act as if "turning back the clock" to 1972 (before Roe v. Wade) is absolutely unthinkable?
Slavery was on the 2004 ballot? I missed it.
"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side".
U.S. Grant
You're killin' me. Maybe we should start handicapping the 2012 re-election field instead of 2008.
Only a fool would believe your absurd observation but then the Democratic Party well knows a plastic bait catches a lot of foolish fish.
Multeam1
Many Blue states that supported Kerry also supported Slavery - when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
"The Republican Party is the ship. All else is sea." --Frederick Douglass
These bozos are so used to dividing people and pandering to each group, they just can't help themselves. Free states included OH, IN, KY, KS, IA, NV, UT. Nice try, though!
Iowa? Nebraska? North and South Dakota?
The Southern states these dimbulbs refer to were run by democrats then. They're still "democrats" today, but they vote republican.
Well, Maine was part of Massachusetts back then (it wasn't detached and admitted as a separate state until 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise), but the New England Federalists changed their position on "states' rights" when Jefferson became President.
BTW, it was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 that led to the formation of the Republican Party, of which I and my ancestors have been proud affiliates since the Civil War.
100% accurate!!!
Slavery was legal in Massachusetts up to 1783 it looks like.
http://www.slavenorth.com/massemancip.htm
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