What I will never understand is placing loyalty to my country in second place to anything else.
It has to do with the attachment to the soil. Working the land with your own hands, etc. The Irish understand the concept better than most. Until you sweat, labor, till and care for the land, you love, you will not understand.
Bull. The south has no monopoly on farmers. The history of the North is a history of small farmers, families who built their lives from the land. People who went into the wilderness and sweated and labored and cared for the land every bit as much and as well as southerners did. And who considered themselves Americans, and who placed love of country above all else.
So answer my question. Regardless of how unlikely such a scenario might be, if Texas decided that the war in Iraq was not in that state's best interest and told the federal government that they would no longer be providing National Guard units to support the war, and would discourage all Texans from enlisting in the Armed Forces, then who would you support? Texas or the United States?
If I disagreed, I would encourage those who wanted to enlist to go to another state to enlist.
If I disagreed, I would encourage those who wanted to enlist to go to another state to enlist.