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“There’s no point in humoring him.”

Yeah, you are right. I don’t know why I ever bother.

Really stubborn guy… the mile-long arguments are not even worth scanning, because his bottom line is always going to be the same foregone conclusion: Everything was the South’s fault.

Just like everything is Trump’s fault.

And the irony is that if you disagree with anything, he calls you a Democrat. :-)

enumerated: "And the irony is that if you disagree with anything, he calls you a Democrat. :-)"

You guys are Democrats, Southern Democrats, with Democrat mind-sets which require, first & foremost, loyalty to the party's Big Lies, in this case, the Southern Democrats' Lost Cause.

enumerated: "Really stubborn guy… the mile-long arguments are not even worth scanning, because his bottom line is always going to be the same foregone conclusion: Everything was the South’s fault."

Noooo, not "the South's" fault, that's insane.
Jefferson Davis' fault -- yes.
Democrat Fire Eaters' fault -- yes.
Slaveholders' fault -- yes.
"Slave Power's" fault -- yes.
"King cotton's" fault -- yes.

But all of those were a tiny minority of "the South" -- in most Confederate states many were opposed to, first, secession and then war against the United States.
Consider these numbers:

The seven Deep South Confederate states provided circa 60,000 Union troops, about 95% of them black.
The four Upper South Confederate states provided 105,000 Union troops, 2/3 of those were white.
Three Union Border Slave-states provided about 245,000 Union troops, 83% of them white.

Those, among many other reasons, are why Union defenders never criticize "the South", only the Slave Power that ruled it.
So why ever would you defend them?

...the mile-long arguments are not even worth scanning, ...

This.

And the irony is that if you disagree with anything, he calls you a Democrat. :-)

This.

And the irony is that if you disagree with anything, he calls you a Democrat. :-)

That's the funny thing. What did the North - New England especially - want? Big government. The total centralization of power. Corporate welfare. Being busybodies with everybody else. What do they want today? The same things. What did the South want? Limited government, balanced budgets with low spending. A non interventionist foreign policy. Decentralized power. What do they want today? The same things. He comes here and sides with Leftists yet tries to imply that anybody who disagrees with him is a Leftist. Hilarious.