Posted on 01/19/2007 9:17:46 AM PST by RDTF
Nope. I just think it's not a fitting symbol for the party of Lincoln and thus has no place in an official GOP function. Jefferson Davis was a Democrat. Let the Democrats have that flag.
I believe it was a lot more than 5% who were a part of slaveowning when you consider that a lot more than 5% of households owned slaves.
But when the time came, they joined the militias of their individual states out of a noble sense of honor, Southern honor.
You don't read the same history books that I do. I read of a heavy-handed conscription system far more onerous than anything in the North. I read about widespread desertion from the reb army as more and more of the conscripted mass realized that the slaveowners' confederacy wasn't worth dying for.
Several counties in my home state of Pennsylvania fought on the Confederate side...
Too bad for those counties in PA. Hopefully for the good name of those counties people will forget that. There was a lot more counties in the South that supported the Union. The funny thing was that those Unionist southern counties were the ones where slaveowning was largely absent which sheds some light on what really inspired the rebellion.
Nuge! Confederate flag? Don't you live in Michigan?
How many people did the machine guns kill?
What you say is true of course but if you don't believe that there is a double standard than you're fooling yourself.
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