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How the South belatedly won America's civil war
BBC News UK ^ | 01/20/2006 | By David Cannadine

Posted on 01/20/2006 2:50:00 PM PST by oxcart

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Not a bad article for a lib from the BBC.
1 posted on 01/20/2006 2:50:02 PM PST by oxcart
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To: oxcart

The south is better off for having lost the Civil War. And America is better for not having lost the south.


2 posted on 01/20/2006 2:53:31 PM PST by My2Cents (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell)
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To: oxcart

We have been occupied for 140 years now; no more blood for cotton.


3 posted on 01/20/2006 2:55:21 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: oxcart

You forgot to mention how Johnson and Hoover conspired with mob hitment to murder JFK. There's a lot more to LBJ's story. See BLOOD, MONEY, AND POLITICS HOW LBJ MURDERDED JFK by Barr McClellan, one of Johnson's personal attorneys.

The book has faced a virtural backout by the MSM.


4 posted on 01/20/2006 2:56:24 PM PST by kjo
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"Another is that it is now scarcely conceivable that an American president could be elected who's based in the North East.

That would probably be true even if he was a Republican, and it would be still more true if he (or she) was a Democrat. "




Oh boy,Mitt Romney is going to love this comment.


5 posted on 01/20/2006 2:57:23 PM PST by Mears
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To: oxcart
John Kerry found that out the hard way in 2004

So did Algore in 2000.  The southern states will also help weed out McPain in the primaries.

6 posted on 01/20/2006 2:58:55 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: oxcart

At last, my Confederate dollars are legal tender.

He forgot to mention the increasing socialism and debauchery of the Democrat party. But then that doesn't fit with the leftist paradigm.


7 posted on 01/20/2006 2:59:20 PM PST by stinkerpot65
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To: My2Cents

"The south is better off for having lost the Civil War."


Yeah, sure. The South got the busybody north with all their liberals and a federal government out of control.


8 posted on 01/20/2006 3:00:13 PM PST by CodeToad
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Johnson's Civil Rights Act was not only overdue and admirable but a rare example of a politician doing something he believed in but which was not consistent with his own, or with his party's, political self-interest

Yeah, that must have been why when Johnson pushed the act he said it will guarantee the Dems black votes for years to come.

The basic premise of this article is so silly that it doesn't surprise me that the writer is ignorant of one of the more famous LBJ comments ever.

9 posted on 01/20/2006 3:02:54 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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Another is that it is now scarcely conceivable that an American president could be elected who's based in the North East.

That would probably be true even if he was a Republican, and it would be still more true if he (or she) was a Democrat.

And yet the BBC will go "full speed ahead" with puff pieces about Die Schlickfrau's wonderfulness come late next year.

Go figure....

10 posted on 01/20/2006 3:03:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Mears

To say nothing of RINO Wannabe President Rudy Giuliani.


11 posted on 01/20/2006 3:07:28 PM PST by Clemenza (God Bless Abraham Lincoln and the GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC)
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To: SF Republican

LOL!


12 posted on 01/20/2006 3:09:27 PM PST by msnimje (Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Furry Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
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To: oxcart

bump


13 posted on 01/20/2006 3:11:38 PM PST by fso301
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To: All

It was the Southern Democrats who inserted 'sex' into the language of the Civil Rights Act as a ploy to make it untenable, not foreseeing the social repercussions it would unleash.

Lyndon Johnson was certainly the worst president in my lifetime if not for all time. Most of our current maladies from high medical costs (Medicare and Medicaid) to the horrific decline of our inner cities (Welfare) can be traced back to his administration. And then there's Vietnam....

One of my unfulfilled ambitions in life is to travel down to his gravesite on the Perdenales and piss on it.


14 posted on 01/20/2006 3:12:21 PM PST by RonBomb
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Confederate diehards are just about as patriotic as a UN worshipping Liberal. If the South had won, we wouldn't be The United States, we'd be two different nations.


15 posted on 01/20/2006 3:22:49 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell
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To: RonBomb

I don't know how old you are and how long your can hold it, but you might wait until Carter and Clinton are Satan's butt-boys and then you can make a pretty decent Southern road trip out of it!!


16 posted on 01/20/2006 3:24:41 PM PST by namsman
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Live in a Southern state for a couple of decades and get back to us on that.


17 posted on 01/20/2006 3:25:21 PM PST by Professional Engineer (If courtesy pays, why are you in debt?)
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To: Peanut Gallery

ping


18 posted on 01/20/2006 3:26:13 PM PST by Professional Engineer (If courtesy pays, why are you in debt?)
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To: My2Cents
I agree wholeheartedly. Yet mine is one of the first generation absent of kin who would consider those "fightin' words".

As it is, I still had one of my relatives ask me if I was going to marry "a brown girl". To top it off they were baffled as to why they weren't invited to the wedding. As one of his sons later fell in love, married and now has children with a beautiful Mexican lady, he's changed his tune. It's that or never meet his grandchilren. God works in wondrous ways...

19 posted on 01/20/2006 3:26:26 PM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: oxcart

"STFU you losers. We kick your sorry asses fair and square."

20 posted on 01/20/2006 3:26:40 PM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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