Santorum is a pious fraud..he talks the talk but he does not walk the walk. He is not worthy enough to shine Newt's shoes
Before the Civil War cotton was one of the major cash crops in the Indian Nations. The Southeastern tribes in Oklahoma during that time all had black slaves. The Chickasaws and Choctaws were united with the Confederacy and actually sent a delegation to the Confederate Congress. The other tribes weren’t as united but they all raised troops for the Confederacy. The last Confederate General Officer to surrender at the end of the war was the Cherokee Stand Watie.
Granted the war was on a smaller scale than in the east but many battles were fought in what is now Oklahoma. In northern Oklahoma it was more like what was going on in northwestern Arkansas and Missouri in that it was a guerrilla war. Families split with fighting on both sides. I had at least six or seven direct ancestors in the Confederate Army and at least one in the Union Army. The Union soldier was in the First Arkansas Cavalry and had two brothers in the Confederate Army. In at least one battle I had great grandfathers on both sides of the fight.
At family reunions you can put all my Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma relatives together and not realize which ones came from which state.
I’ll never get over seeing Newt sitting at Pelosi’s side lecturing us about “man-made” global warming. That says it all. The only reason (besides ego) why Newt is staying in the race is to throw it to Romney.