[davisfh]

I agree with you and with everything Chip Wood says in his writing. However, we in the South can never overcome the idea that has been put forth and continually reinforced over the years - that idea being that the War for Southern Independence was about slavery. Who can know what North American would be like today had the South succeeded. We can only guess.

In this era, every citizen of the United States has a right to be fearful of its government. Unfortunately some are too stupid and others pitiably ignorant to understand what is being visited upon them. May God have mercy on us.

[autumnraine]

There is also the lie that if you take pride in the Confederate (a name my great great grandfather died under) then you want all blacks to be slaves again.

[nyconse]

I know the argument being of Southern stock and having lived in the South a number of years. It was about state’s rights according to my family. Slavery would have ended at some point peacefully. Maybe, maybe not. But it was really about slavery; Lincoln was an abolitionist and the South expected him to free the slaves at some point. In some ways it was a clash of civilizations.

As for what would have happened had the South won, I don’t know...we never will. But, how can one expect that a government based on the enslaving of one group expect them to extend liberties to another? Thus, I don’t believe those who claim it would have been a freer society are correct...it’s romanticism of the gallant South that makes people believe this.