Either way, the South of the past is not the South of today. The South of today is heavily Republican. We learned our lesson. According to my great-grandfather, the slave owners in the South were mostly wealthy Southern Democrat plantation owners, politicians, and wealthy business owners. There were Republicans in the South at that time, but most were NOT in favor of slavery. They didn’t like being told what to do. We still don’t.
The reason we are hated today is because of our stand against abortion and other perversions that liberal Democrats try to force on us. We still don’t like to be “ruled” and told what to do.
My great-grandparents and grandparents in the South saw changes. My Republican grandmother was terrified of the Southern Democrats in the 60’s. She lived in fear of the clan. If you were even seen being friends with a black person in the 60’s and before, you were targeted and threatened. She wasn’t a racist. She was afraid.
That’s where so many in the liberal North are today. They use threats and intimidation to force their way on others. The people of the South, whose ancestors have been here since the forming of the country, that suffered through the same intimidations and threats, aren’t having it.
Past Southerners have made mistakes choosing a President but usually it was because the alternative was worse in their eyes. My dad always said, “never vote for a Democrat or a Catholic”. I don’t know what he had against Catholics, but I don’t share his opinion on that. He broke his own rule when he voted for Carter. He said he only did it because Carter was a Baptist and a Southern farmer. He regretted that vote for the rest of his life.
Democrats will always have their slave class. In the Civil War, it was blacks. Today it is moving from blacks to Hispanics, illegals, and any other minority group that they can exploit.
It’s the Southerners that have stood against the liberals and Democrats through history that will save the country today, if it can be saved.
Interesting and true, to my mind.
When i went to school in Georgia (UGa), our patronizing and liberal landlady, Mrs. Traylor, used to say, if you love the post office, you’ll love Jimmy Carter’s health plan.
Excellent comment, speaking as a pro-life northern Catholic, embarrassed by the pro-aborts in the northern states.
Excellent comment, speaking as a pro-life northern Catholic, embarrassed by the pro-aborts in the northern states.