[Your Nightmare]

I really don't get this neo-Confederate attitude. It's obvious that some on FR wish that the South had won. Can these people call themselves American patriots and still pine for days when the South was in violent rebellion against the Government of the United States? Somebody on this thread even suggested that Lincoln should have been assassinated sooner! How anti-American, anti-patriotic can you get? Do these people hate America that much?

I really don't see how you can be a neo-reb and a patriotic American at the same time.

[wideawake]

I really don't see how you can be a neo-reb and a patriotic American at the same time.

No Confederate would have bothered to pick up a rifle if he didn't believe he was fighting to preserve the principles that sparked the War of American Independence in the first place.

The Confederates saw themselves as the most patriotic and loyal followers of the Founding Fathers. And a close reading of the Federalist Papers reveals that the Framers were curiously Confederate in their thinking on a large number of issues.