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As a professional editor, I find I can often help people say the same things with fewer words. Here's a rewrite of your post, free of charge:

"I am going to keep making the same arguments even if they are disproved our otherwise removed from contention. I'll also keep saying that you are making points that you've never advanced. For example, even after you post text where Lincoln talks about the judgment of God being visited on the nation for the sin of slavery, I will continue to pretend that you were saying that Abe Lincoln supported radical abolitionists, thereby 'disproving' a point you never made. Plus, I'll be sure to play the usual, stupid, bigoted, anti-intellectual 'you disagree with me therefore you hate the South' card."

There...that was wordier than it would have been after a further rewrite, and it was 100 words. Your original version was 350 words, so I cut it by about 72%.

If you think I hate the South you're blind and deaf. We're done here.

“As a professional editor,”

Let me guess, an English major incapable of original work?
You aren’t very good at that little task, if the below is any example.

Let’s deconstruct your little screed, shall we?

“I am going to keep making the same arguments even if they are disproved our otherwise removed from contention”

You do not prove an argument by fiat.

“For example, even after you post text where Lincoln talks about the judgment of God being visited on the nation for the sin of slavery, I will continue to pretend that you were saying that Abe Lincoln supported radical abolitionists, thereby ‘disproving’ a point you never made.”

You rather seriously misrepresent my argument here. It’s almost as if you can’t read. The claim was made that the definition for the “grapes of wrath” line in the Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by the wife of one of John Brown’s friends in 1861, may be found in the address given by Lincoln in 1865. I pointed out that that doesn’t logically follow. In short, you’re doing to me what you claim I was doing to you. Par for the course for the ignorant liberal arts crowd, I guess.

“Plus, I’ll be sure to play the usual, stupid, bigoted, anti-intellectual ‘you disagree with me therefore you hate the South’ card.”

Actually, it’s the insults from your side in this argument that show your side to be the usual “, bigoted, anti-intellectual “.

“If you think I hate the South you’re blind and deaf. We’re done here.”

Good, sonny.