Semantics. Everyone knows Southerners are more Conservative than yankees. Heck...our worst democrats are more Conservative than your best Republicans. Without the South and our traditional Conservative values this country would be flyin' the hammer and sickle by now. We ARE America.
I spent half my life in the south.
From a previous thread - my words;
I have been fighting the good fight against Neoconfederates for a decade. Whenever I think about leaving the oppression of taxation and legislation which is NJ to return to the beauty and conservative governance of the south, I remember that the stain of Neoconfedercy. I admire my southern countrymen and women for many things. I am grateful for much of what they have done and continue to do for this nation. I admire much in them that is graceful, honest, polite, hard working, family-oriented, and patriotic.
But this absolute failure to see the reality of a past that is not their fault or their burden, which they nonetheless feel compeled to advance, saddens and confuses me.
Were it not for this willful blindness I would cosider it not a boast to call them the greatest America has to offer in a land of beauty and liberty. More is the pity. My love-hate with the south goes on.
You are a bigger fool than I thought. Why? Because you would alienate those who hold you in high reagrd on most things over a war lost by those who, in balance, when all things are considered including Northern crimes and sins, fought for a two reprehensible goals - the destruction of the United States and the perpetuation of Chattle slavery.
Your self-righteous proclimations of "flying the hammer and sickle" willfully ignores the contributions of thousands of "Yankees" at Tarwa, Bastone, and the depths of the North sea. Without United States victory in 1865, the historical trophies you summon for your argument (ie; defeat of the Soviets) would never have occuried.