Posted on 06/23/2012 7:52:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I would like to recommend a book written by Tony Horwitz, “Confederates in the Attic.” It is both humorous and sobering. He explains why the Confederate flag is hated these days and how that got started. And, believe it or not, Sherman was not the hated man as some portray him now! It is a very interesting book. I wish everyone could read it. I got mine at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA in March of this year.
But of course. I could have told you. Sometimes I miss my “home” states of TN & AL. Miss the slower pace, the food, neighbors, and the smell of Honeysuckle in the evening. Besides the people don’t talk funny like they do up north.
As the song goes - "I'm from the country, and I like it that way."
Can you supply any documentation on that? Since slavery was a total states rights issue then (prior to the 13th Amendment) who was stopping them from ending slavery? Northern states ended it on their own, and no one stopped it.
Your knowledge of history has some very serious gaps.
I would recommend you read the Cornerstone Speech by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens.
Defending slavery was all the Confederacy was about. Without slavery, there would have been no Civil War.
Please, you mean to write Nazis when referring to them as a group, not Nazi’s. FRpers, please don’t fear to add an unadorned S when making a noun plural.
Please, you mean to write Nazis when referring to them as a group, not Nazi’s. FRpers, please don’t fear to add an unadorned S when making a noun plural.
I’m an American. However I have a sister-in-law from the Tar Heel State. (Reigalwood). Two of my brothers graduated from a little Catholic college outside of Charlotte, Belmont Abbey. Been to NC a number of times . Nice place, eighth largest state in the nation. I don’t hate Southerners by the way, just the “Johnny Reb’’ wannabe’s.
The South tried to end slavery before the war? Then what was Kansas all about? And you mean to say the South was fighting to end slavery?
How in the hell did the South put a Klansman in the Senate?
“Please, you mean to write Nazis when referring to them as a group, not Nazi’s. FRpers, please don’t fear to add an unadorned S when making a noun plural.”
Don’t be afraid to follow a thread closely enough to address the author of the passage in question.
Equating those who fought for the Confederacy with the Nazis really shows what little you know about this subject.
Wasn’t West Virginia created by President Lincoln and the North? How is it then a Southern state?
I am proud of my Confederate Ancestors (including those who rode with Quantrill). All those who have a problem with that can rot in hell.
Sorry, I sometimes get confused about who’s who and who said what.
Because it’s always considered itself to be a Southern state.
It was the part of Virginia that split of from the Confederacy.
Hell is right where “Bloody Bill’’ Quantrill is right now and no doubt those who rode with him. The man was a murdering psychopath.
There are plenty of places across our great land that have pride in their community and still hold to the values that or forefathers had.
Obviously these folks think the south is the only place these things happen. Not true. We don’t talk about the southern spirit we talk of the western spirit.... the need to build and innovate. Where a man is a man and his word is his bond. Where it matters not what you have done or where you are from but rather what you are willing to do, what you are willing to stand for and fight for.
Do you know the last slave state in America?
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