[stainlessbanner]

I have reservations concerning the historical merits

Agreed. I choose not to blast the text, at least until I've actually read it. The author chooses to reignite regional and sectional hostilities from the past with his posts on FR. This does nothing to promote conservativism - in fact, it's more detremental to conservatives.

Alienating the the conservative base by dredging up civil war history will not help the GOP.

[Grand Old Partisan]

I have never denigrated the South, in the book or on Free Republic. Actually, it is an insult to southern heritage for neo-Confederates to claim that during the Civil War everyone South of the Mason-Dixon line was a traitor. In fact, 200,000 southern blacks and 100,000 southern whites fought for the United States of America while millions of northern Democrats collaborated with their rebel brethren of the Confederacy.

[mac_truck]

Alienating the the conservative base by dredging up civil war history will not help the GOP

Thats rich. What ELSE do you neo-confedrate anke-biters do around here BUT that?