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Does the South Belong in the Union?
Townhall ^ | 06/28/2013 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 06/28/2013 8:44:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/28/2013 8:44:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No, next question.


2 posted on 06/28/2013 8:45:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

OK, next question — why not?


3 posted on 06/28/2013 8:46:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: central_va

Next time fight to win...


4 posted on 06/28/2013 8:48:43 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stupid question.

A better question would be, “Should ALL the states regain their pre civil war autonomy?”


5 posted on 06/28/2013 8:49:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind
It's not a good fit. They are different up there. Simple as that. President Davis quotes:

"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language."

"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people ."

"Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever."

"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena." Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.

"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."

6 posted on 06/28/2013 8:49:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cripplecreek
A better question would be, “Should ALL the states regain their pre civil war autonomy?”

Too bad King Lincoln is dead, I would love to hear his answer.

7 posted on 06/28/2013 8:50:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Next time, try a little harder to free MD.

;D


8 posted on 06/28/2013 8:51:37 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only to point this out. When Latinos reach a significant population in most southern states...you only need to arrange for the Pope to make a ten-day swing through and galvanize Latinos back to the Catholic Church. Then you pull out some Latino-Billy Graham and pump up the other half. Suddenly, you’ve got half the Latino population in America who are either Tea Party or Republican. I think the Democrats really screwed up on their long-term strategy.


9 posted on 06/28/2013 8:51:50 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: null and void

We did.
It doesn’t work when you enemy controls both the industries and the seas.


10 posted on 06/28/2013 8:51:52 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: central_va
Does the South Belong in the Union?

No the real question is "Does the North?"

11 posted on 06/28/2013 8:52:23 AM PDT by apillar
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To: SeekAndFind

Our North, Northeast, Mid North, and Southern and Northern West coast don’t have any substantive value for the South...that’s why.


12 posted on 06/28/2013 8:52:29 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear Stupid People,

Please do a check and see who’s running the three biggest cities in Alabama and then tell me we have a racial problem in our politics.

(Post not directed toward anyone on this site.)


13 posted on 06/28/2013 8:54:01 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Salamander

MD was going Dixie then King Lincoln started arresting the legislature and the rest is history.


14 posted on 06/28/2013 8:54:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I ~know~...so, again, *please* come up and kick arse -harder- next time!

LOL


15 posted on 06/28/2013 8:57:41 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: null and void

Don’t tease the special people. LOL


16 posted on 06/28/2013 8:57:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: apillar

Bazinga!


17 posted on 06/28/2013 8:58:10 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: central_va

My argument in favor is based on a breach of contract. The original contract - The Constitution - has been so altered by judicial fiat and executive orders that it must be renegotiated or abandoned.


18 posted on 06/28/2013 9:00:17 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class. You can't legally marry a fourth one.)
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To: pepsionice
you’ve got half the Latino population in America who are either Tea Party or Republican.

Delusional Thinking

Blacks are by far the most religious group out there, they overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Mexicans are no different, they will vote whomever gives them the most stuff and who their race leaders tell them to vote for and rest assured that won't be the Republicans.

19 posted on 06/28/2013 9:01:13 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: reg45

How about, I just don’t like those people up there.


20 posted on 06/28/2013 9:01:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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