You really don’t undestand this at all do you?
not trying to fight.....
but Bush has a history of denying Texas’s place in the old South and the War Between the States.
He’s a yankee ...of course he wishes to deny it.
I have not looked but I own some flattering books on his family. I bet I can find where they profitted either from slavery or reconstruction or likely...both.
the fact that Bush denies Texas is part of the South is telling to.....we Southerners
seen this thread
No, what he is doing is running away from a PR/media fight that he would have a hard time winning.
Starting in about 1990, the central neural plexus of Yankee Marxism devised a strategy for breaking Dick Nixon's Southern/moral majority. It's still in effect.
The strategy is to demonize Southerners as Hitchcockian trolls, lean-and-nasty white trolls in sweaty felt slouch hats and dirty overalls, with long, nasty yellow fingernails and teeth, who just go on and on about "nigras" and try to hang them and set them on fire every chance they get. It's a hate-icon on the level of "Jew pig" and Fu Manchu as the Yellow Peril (or, in one famous nineteenth-century political cartoon, as a giant Buddha, radiating light and seated on a hovering cloud, surrounded by a nimbus of ominous power -- China apotheosized as an Ultimate Enemy of the West).
When Bush was still governor of Texas, the state NAACP sent him a letter demanding that Confederate symbols be removed from buildings nominally under Bush's administrative responsibility. What Gary Bledsoe, who wrote the letter, wanted was for Bush to say "no" -- so that the NAACP could launch a crusade against Bush as a sweat-stained, snaggletoothed cracker, as "one of THEM". That's what that was all about. Bush tried to slip the punch by taking the plaques down immediately on his own authority, literally in the middle of the night.
The overarching political purpose in all this is to "break the box" -- the Finkelstein box, named for GOP strategist Arthur Finkelstein, that being the geographic area of the U.S. which has voted reliably for Republicans in the later 20th, and which voted reliably for conservative Democrats in the early 20th and later 19th centuries.
And the Border States.
The political objective is to use Southern hate-puppets to turn off, demoralize, and drive away from the polls Midwestern and "battleground States" conservatives and moderates. That is the strategic objective.
It worked in the 2006 midterm elections -- the Democrats used a) corruption charges against GOP congressmen (n/w/s their own hypocrisy on this subject), b) the Mark Foley scandal, and c) "moderate" Democrats who actually looked like real people (Sen. Webb of Virginia being Exhibit "A") to run against conservative Republicans, to give the 'Rats a working majority in both houses of Congress.
In 2004, it worked the other way, with Karl Rove using down-ballot initiatives to invigorate and turn out the social conservatives in e.g. Ohio, to blow away the waffling, weak, morally compromised (thanks to the Swifties and his own gigolousness) DemonRat candidate.
I do understand this. I don’t wish to fight either. I just don’t believe it is class warfare or arrogance.
Texas isn’t a part of the old South anymore than Arizona is because of the Battle of Picacho Peak. But then there are alot of folk still fighting the Civil War.
Who cares if his family had a part in slavery or reconstruction? Those have nothing to do with him. What’s in your closet? My family had slaves. Does that have any bearing on me? Part of my family that was still in Germany lived in the city of Dachau? I never met them, or corresponded with them, but given your thinking, I should be looked down on because of them. They weren’t Nazis, and if fact, had to prove their Aryan descent lest they end up in the camp.
There is nothing telling when President Bush says he is from the southwest. But seems quite telling at everyone, especially the Southerners who keep screaming about the Yankees.