[7thson]

It is amazing the mental gymnastics some perform in order to justify evil. If all four of you believe the “Yankees” started corrupting the South starting in the 1850’s so that the South can keep enslaving other humans, than all of you are no better than leftists.

[csmusaret]

I guess it all depends on whose evil is being justified.

[robowombat]

I have no idea what the writer meant by ‘corrupting the South’. However, for sanctimonious types such as you a bit of perspective is useful. Every colony recognized slavery. The pious Quakers of Rhode Island were the most notable for the scale of their slave trading operations. When the economy of northern colonies and later states shifted to commercial and industrial from maritime and home manufacture slavery became uneconomical and could then be considered bad. Well bad after most of the slaves got shipped to places like North Carolina for resale. States from Maryland south entered the federal union with their slaves. Slavery was recognized within the federal union from its foundation. The economy of the South was based on staple agriculture and slavery. Abolitionists were people who could dine out on their morality because they had no economic interest in the South. It is always easiest to be loudly virtuous when there is no monetary sacrifice and a big ego boost for being so virtuous. You seemed to have assimilated the attitude of these people perfectly.

[Albion Wilde]

It is amazing the mental gymnastics some perform in order to justify evil. If all four of you believe the “Yankees” started corrupting the South starting in the 1850’s so that the South can keep enslaving other humans, than all of you are no better than leftists.

It's amazing the mental blinders you are wearing to avoid the complexities of the War Between the States. None of my posts expressed support for the "peculiar institution" -- far from it. I will always be the first to admit it was the main and perhaps the only flaw in our original Constitution.

But your paint-with-a-broad-bigoted-brush dismissal of the South and its defense of the Federal system is naïve. Besides ending slavery, that war ended the Republic and began the Socialist system we now inherit. There might have been a third way that would have ended slavery and preserved the Union without bloodshed, but for hothead haters on both sides.

However, the victors wrote the history and continue to congratulate themselves on their blundering, wasteful and bloody conquest/occupation/snobbery towards the most patriotic region of our land, which since 1776 has produced more of the military defenders of our Bill of Rights and unique freedoms than any other region.

Imagine the "history" your great-grandchildren will read as the post-Obama version of today's conservative opinion, if contemporary MSM and leftwing blogs are any example.