. . . And it took the South until the 1960s to get with the modern world - makes them little better than the barbarians we are fighting in Iraq.
100% of what I am saying is that if you were born in Virginia in 1840 you would have enthusiastically fought for the Confederacy, and wouldn’t have appreciated Yankees telling you that you were immoral for doing so. Yes, IMHO upbringing/culture has that much effect.And it’s not likely that you are a lot more committed to Jesus than Stonewall Jackson was, for example. If you read his biography, you will understand what I am saying. He started a Sunday School for slaves, which was controversial in Virginia. And he owned one slave, reluctantly, because the slave himself importuned him to buy him from a hard master.
As I said, there is ample evidence that Abraham Lincoln was prejudiced against blacks. Everyone was.
Look, my first interest in being a Republican was on account of the story of Lincoln. But in school, you learn things in other ways than class. And the blacks I encountered there taught me to be wary of them. Same thing, it’s how they were raised. And that doesn’t change on a dime.
Read yourself some Thomas Sowell.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell