Re: a vital part of Southern culture, and the outrage against it is more evidence of the yankeefied wussification of America.
Since you bring this point up, was slavery also a part of the culture that went away because of the “yankeefied wussification of America”?
Sweet Jesus, can we occasionally have a thread that doesn't devolve into another never-ending rehash of the War Between the States? I'm expecting stand watie to pop up any time and perpetuate this thread for at least a couple months.
Slavery was a grave sin, and left a stain that still lingers over all of Western civilization, not just the Southern US or even the US. Ending it by any means necessary was just.
There were many things wrong with Reconstruction, but none more wrong than how inept its execution was and the fact that the Union pulled out before the job as done. In the end, the Federals pulled out and left blacks in a state of oppression that had to be revisited, dramatically and traumatically, all over again a century later.
And yes, there are parallels there to Iraq and Afghanistan. As my mom used to say, if you can't find the time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?
Hey, what are you doing, highjacking this thread and trying to make it about slavery?