Posted on 10/15/2005 8:38:50 AM PDT by teldon30
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Great post teldon30. This is a bookmark for sure.
I guess i could have squeezed elitist yankees in there somewhere! ;)
Have you ever noticed this?"
These are USSC justices since 1949. The last white protestant southerner appointed appears to be Clark. He was the father of Ramsey Clark btw....(Fortas was from Tennessee but he was Jewish).
Clark, Tom Campbell Texas
Minton, Sherman Indiana
Harlan, John Marshall New York
Brennan, William J., Jr. New Jersey
Whittaker, Charles Evans Missouri
Stewart, Potter Ohio
White, Byron Raymond Colorado
Goldberg, Arthur Joseph Illinois
Fortas, Abe Tennessee
Marshall, Thurgood New York
Blackmun, Harry A. Minnesota
Powell, Lewis F., Jr. Virginia
Rehnquist, William H. Arizona
Stevens, John Paul Illinois
O’Connor, Sandra Day Arizona
Scalia, Antonin Virginia
Kennedy, Anthony M. California
Souter, David H. New Hampshire
Thomas, Clarence Georgia
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader New York
Breyer, Stephen G. Massachusetts
Meirs is a white protestant southerner. This is the real reason, just like all the reasons associated with why the South was defeated, that you don't see much discussion in the MSM about why she is so hated by 'Conservatives'.
We have a winner!
ping to #8...re Miers..
Having read "A Stillness At Appomattox", I'm amazed at the ineptness and cowardice of the Union conscript. Several battles seem to have been won by a Union officer rallying the troops at the last moment, when all seemed lost. And most of those officers appear to have come from the MidWest, not the North.
No. 2: Avoid head-to-head battles that use up your manpower, your most precious asset.
No. 3. Prolong the war.
No. 4. Hope that the enemy would grow heartily sick of the casualties in a war that never seems to end.
There were some other Gen. Washington rules:
No. 5. The Revolution would continue as long as he had the Continental Army, which was the only real power he had.
No. 6. Thus, do not risk the army except in the most dire emergency or when the odds are heavily in your favor.
No. 7. Do not risk the army to defend territory because it is the army that the British have to subdue, not geography.
No. 8. Remember that most of the fighting will be in your territory in geography you know best. Frustrate the British by raids, continual skirmishing, and capturing their supplies, always staying just beyond their ability to defeat you.
Precisely the rules Michael Collins used in the Irish War of Independence!
No, the South lost because they couldn't control the borders. ;-)
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Amazing isn't it? The Midwesterners were backwoodsmen, farmers and tough as nails. The "Westerners" got the job done. The Army of the West kept the Union in the War. Grant, Sherman and many other generals were from Ohio and further west.
My view is that the Southrens have the Yankees right where they want 'em. Why even the Northerners are fed up with the extra-constitutional overreaching from Washington. This will go down as the greatest rope-a-dope of all time. Look for the occupation of Dixie to end any day now.
South lost the war in the near term but in the long term we have a vibrant South and a decaying North. People are voting with their feet.
The author should write a follow-on called "Why the North Lost the Civil War," as it was a war where all the states on both sides lost their states' rights.
Last year I stopped for gas at a little village in NW Pennsylvania, which was manned by an elderly man wearing a re-enactor's Union Infantry cap. Seeing my Texas plates, he said he had visited Texas once, and had helped a young couple with car trouble, who then told him he was a good guy, "even if he was a Yank." After paying him and going to the restroom, I came out as he was waiting on another customer at the register, told him, "The couple was right, you are a pretty good guy for a Yank!" He ignored his new customer and hollered back, "Hey, we won that war, you know!"
I replied, "No, we all lost that one," whereupon the customer jerked his thumb back over his shoulder at me and said, "He's right, Ron!"
During Washingtons Presidency he signed an treaty with England that many in the US viewed as simply giving back some of what we fought for during the Revolution, Washingtons view was that it was inevitable that a war between the US an a European power was inevitable, it was best that much like his fighting that the idea wasnt simply to go out and win battles, much like Lee thought, but it was to drag it out until either you have the manpower to win or the will of the enemy dictates that they wont.
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