[Ditto]

That claim is simply silly, and demonstrative of your manifest ignorance.

With most of the neo-rebs, it's ignorance. With that guy, it's insanity.

[andy_card]

Of course. Its perfectly reasonable for people to look at undisputed facts and come up with unreasonable explanations for them. But some of these people make up facts that are as divorced from reality as anybody can possibly get.

The idea that Southern Democrats were opposed to teritorial expansion is only slightly less imbecilic than suggesting that Adolf Hitler opposed German expansion. These people are not serious about history. They are serious only about their own twisted ideology and the furtherance of it.