Sure, and I'm only alive today because CSA's Nathan Bedford Forrest was a decent human being -- his forces, on a raid in early 1863, captured my great grandfather's company, then released them on parole, unharmed.
They were later exchanged.
Imho, Forrest's act of kindness (as my new immigrant g-grandfather would have seen it) saved Forrest's life at the Battle of Tupelo in July 1864.
It was a Stonewall Jackson moment for Forrest, but he rode right through Union lines, unharmed.
You can look it up.
My Dad's division trained for WWII at Camp Forrest, in Tennessee.
He first met my mother (then jail-bait young) in the 1930s, at a college near your home, in Tennessee, they met again at Valley Forge after the war, & married.
They are buried a few miles from my home in PA.
wardaddy: "If you are placing your hopes in today’s modern GOPe you are going to be very sad.
They are complete pussies and have abandoned us."
I have no idea who this GOPe is that's got you transfixed like a deer in the headlights.
Presumably, you mean Republicans who didn't vote for Donald Trump, which iirc represents maybe 5% -- almost literally just the Bush & Cheney families.
And yet you go nuts using those two families as your excuse to hate on half the country!
How insane is that?
The truth is in 2020 Trump got more legitimate votes than any other president in history, and for 2022 is supporting a long list of candidates which I'd bet will nearly all win their primaries and general elections.
Now FRiend, I hate to remind you this, because I love, love Ronald Reagan, but just like Lincoln in 1864, Reagan chose a Southern Democrat (elder Bush, yes, think about it!) as his Vice President, who then ran as "kinder & gentler" than Reagan -- an impossibility, but the country bought it.
And that's how we got here today.
wardaddy: "Aside from Trump we are alone for leadership and they either hate him or tolerate him"
Trump has millions of supporters, in & out of political office, and they will support his candidates in 2022 & 2024.
Whether they can all overcome the Democrats' vote-stealing machine we can't know today, but I'm not betting against Trump, not now, not ever.
wardaddy: "And this notion 1860 democrats are the same as today’s loons is Glen Beck And Levin and Shapiro neocon nonsense propagated to deflect charges of racism against the GOPe from media and progressives"
Sorry, but now you're just babbling nonsense.
So let me explain this to you, listen up: as Reagan first pointed out, every human being is born with a, let me call it, "inner Democrat", your childish nature which says, "I want it, I feeeeel it, I need it, I will it take from you, I will use any means necessary (i.e., lie, cheat, steal), and I hate you for opposing me".
Now good, decent adult citizens learn to control their "inner Democrats" and so practice honor, honesty, integrity, kindness, generosity & self-sacrifice towards their fellow citizens -- those people are Republicans.
So Southern Democrats were the original Democrats and defined what it means to be a Democrat -- they put party before country, they were "strict constructionists" but only for their opponents, once in political power Democrats did whatever they wanted to.
They lied, cheated & stole elections from Day One until today.
And here's a fact you likely overlook: the most radical Democrat leader, Nancy Pelosi, is herself the daughter of a Southern Democrat politician (look it up!), and her most loyal supporters, the Black Caucus, learned their politics from the "Solid South" Democrats.
So your Democrat ancestors taught today's Democrats how to behave politically, and now you want us Republicans to be that same kind of people?
No, FRiend, that's not going to happen, not now, not ever, not so long as there are still decent, honorable, honest citizens.
Republicans are the "nice-peoples" party, and we have to win that way, even if it drives our own ex-Southern Democrats nuts. ;-)
Enjoy your day!