I would imagine a large number of representatives from the South have ties to ancestors who owned slaves. No surprise at all. Even blacks owned slaves.
Yep, there were more than 4,000 black slave OWNERS in America. The British also enslaved over 300,000 WHITES in colonial America. When you add those facts to the additional facts that African tribes routinely enslaved each other, that Muslims enslaved white Europeans, and that right this minute Muslim Africans are enslaving black Africans, with chains, whips, slave auctions, the whole nine yards, it is absolutely ludicrous to keep fretting over black slaves in America over 160 years ago.
When you know the truth, you realize that America has NOTHING to apologize for and that black Americans need to stop using slavery as an excuse, get off their butts, and take responsibility for their own self-inflicted failures.