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Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy
aolnews ^ | Apr 13, 2011 – 7:10 AM | lauren frayer

Posted on 05/03/2011 9:29:20 AM PDT by OL Hickory

A century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2011polls; civil; dixie; north; south; thesouthwasright; war
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To: OL Hickory
Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy

VERY troubling. Insanity at 60%, and in the SOUTH. We got trouble.

21 posted on 05/03/2011 9:46:00 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: OL Hickory
nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy

The other 6 are Yankee immigrants.

22 posted on 05/03/2011 9:47:15 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: OL Hickory

All we have to do for reinforcement is wstch the Damnysnkees screw up everything they touch! Why should we want a nation where NYC is considered normal and Michael Bloomberg a great leader?


23 posted on 05/03/2011 9:50:36 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: rokkitapps
no freedom of the press or speech

That was true of both the Union and Confederacy. And that "vigorous" press notwithstanding, you just have to look at the 1863 draft riots to see how free speech was handled in the North.
24 posted on 05/03/2011 9:51:00 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Renderofveils

You are correct about that riot, however, the main point is the north maintained civilian authority in most federal areas, while the south had military rule.


25 posted on 05/03/2011 9:54:03 AM PDT by rokkitapps
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To: Idabilly

Count me in.

Resist the federal behemoth!


26 posted on 05/03/2011 9:56:45 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: OL Hickory
I believe it. My Mother-in-Law still occasionally introduces me as "That Yankee Republican".

I am a dammed Yankee, but I've got enough sense to realize a good thing when I see it. Wouldn't change one thing about the south. I love it here.

27 posted on 05/03/2011 9:59:32 AM PDT by wbill
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To: OL Hickory

Huffington influence? The source is aol news, and she’s there, and wa lah, we’ve got one more civil rights trouble making.


28 posted on 05/03/2011 9:59:44 AM PDT by RitaOK
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To: from occupied ga

They say it because the assumption is that anyone who agrees is “wacist” and wants to still have slavery.

In the blue states, its seen as proof of how backward and deliverence stupid Southerners are.


29 posted on 05/03/2011 10:01:24 AM PDT by Adder (Part 1 Accomplished)
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To: rokkitapps

THe south if they had gained there freedom would have resemble the US under the AoC. They were fighting against centralized govt. YOu cannot judge the North or the South by what happened during wartime.


30 posted on 05/03/2011 10:02:57 AM PDT by central_va
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To: FightThePower!
If people are free to enter the Union, why are they not free to exit?

All contracts have two or more parties. If the contract doesn't specify, then all the parties have to agree to end it, just like all the parties had to agree to the contract in the first place. Basic law, which is based on basic common sense.
31 posted on 05/03/2011 10:04:23 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground: The Hogwarts of stupid.)
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To: OL Hickory
nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy.

What percentage of the other six have ever heard of it?

32 posted on 05/03/2011 10:08:02 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: rokkitapps
It was a military dictatorship during the war - no freedom of the press or speech. The north on the other hand, had a vigorous press throughout the war.

LOL! Francis Scott Key's grandson et al journalists jailed without warrant throughout the north notwithstanding. vigorous press?
33 posted on 05/03/2011 10:14:21 AM PDT by phi11yguy19
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To: TruthBeforeAll
BUT... the abomination of slavery had to end.

agreed, but (a) that's not why he waged the war (secession), and (b) was 600,000 dead the proper means to that end? Not so much for the rest of the world where slavery was much more prevalent.
34 posted on 05/03/2011 10:16:16 AM PDT by phi11yguy19
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To: OL Hickory

As far as the issue of states rights is concerned, I agree ABSOLUTELY with the Confederacy.

However enslaving a race of people was DEAD wrong and I eagerly await the justification of slavery.


35 posted on 05/03/2011 10:16:16 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Jemian

Me too.
We visited the grave of my ancestor who was killed at Chancellorsville on Sunday.


36 posted on 05/03/2011 10:18:09 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: rokkitapps
the north maintained civilian authority in most federal areas, while the south had military rule

actually every power lincoln assumed during the war was done so under his military rule. he wasn't executing the laws of the day warring secession, suspending habeus corpus, etc.
37 posted on 05/03/2011 10:19:01 AM PDT by phi11yguy19
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To: Cheburashka

“All contracts have two or more parties. If the contract doesn’t specify, then all the parties have to agree to end it, just like all the parties had to agree to the contract in the first place. Basic law, which is based on basic common sense.”

Kind of like the Mafia.


38 posted on 05/03/2011 10:21:08 AM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: central_va

“Appomattox resolved nothing.”

Except to make Wilmer McLean the only American to have a war start and finish on farms he owned.


39 posted on 05/03/2011 10:21:45 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Le Chien Rouge

“However enslaving a race of people was DEAD wrong and I eagerly await the justification of slavery.”

Are you talking about the USA for 80 years after the Constitution was written?


40 posted on 05/03/2011 10:23:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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