[Non-Sequitur]

The 2/3 personage for blacks was insisted upon by Northern politicians to balance the census so the South would not be over represented it the congress diluting Northern power. So there!!

But had the Southern delegates gotten their way and had a slave counted as a whole person then wouldn't the Southern overrepresentation been even worse? In 1860 there were over 3 million slaves in the South. That added over 1.8 million people to the census for the purpose of determining congressional seats. But those 1.8 million extra people had no more use for political representation than a barn or a lamppost. They were considered property and not people. They had no rights, no privledges, no freedoms at all. So please don't get all high and mighty about the North demanding the 3/5ths counting for slaves. It was the South that was using slaves for crass political purposes and in an blatant attempt to grab power. The 3/5ths rule was merely an attempt to keep them from using the slaves as badly as they might have.

Heck, Lincoln had no desire to free the slaves until late in the war. He wanted to save the Union.

So? The Southern leaders had no desire to free the slaves at all. Does that make them worse than Lincoln?

[Islander7]

No to all your points, but don't point fingers at a large portion of USA citizens as if we are still a problem for this country. We are one of the last bastions of true, patriotic conservatism left in the USA. There is far more racial harmony in the South than in many other areas of the country.

A few years ago there was a push to replace the Mississippi Flag with a new version that did not include the Battle flag. The measure was soundly defeated with a sizable portion of the blacks voting to keep the current flag.

We are not the enemy, the Liberals and RINOs are.