[Laser_Ray]

To our shame, yes, but they followed the demand for Southern cotton to the point half the nation was as dependent on it for income as the Irish were for potatoes on food and copied a culture based on the cruel british aristocracy to go with it.

Swing and a hit.

[laotzu]

I’d like to thank all the proud Confederates for importing the ancestors of these animals by the shipload.

It was the yankees that imported the "animals by the shipload". Their ports. Their ships. Their profits. However, as you illustrate, even to this day not their shame.

That "the Irish were for potatoes on food and copied a culture based on the cruel british(sic) aristocracy" line was especially funny. Good millinneal humor. A dazzling intellect.