5. Yanks on FR hate sweet tea and grits
Stopped reading after the “hurts women and minorities most” line.
Popcorn-chomping bump
Did anyone read this Sunday’s Parade Magazine in which there was an article written by a supposed Southern historian who basically said we are still fighting the war because the Tea Party people are nothing but secessionist, anti-government, KKK racists?
Stunning...
Considering the North’s strong union (labor union that is) bent it’s really ironic that so many yankees (yeah I know, half a word) are back tracking down the underground railroad to work as virtual slaves in right to work states. Stay home bluecoats, we don’t need you and your liberal views, we got enough Californians now messing with our politics.
Joshua Chamberlain left the yankee Northeast 100 years ago, and he ain’t coming back. He’s been replaced by Gen. Michael Moore and fat welfare momma brigade.
Yes on grits, no on sweet tea. *shudder*
Other than slavery, the issues that precipitated the Civil War are still out there to be dealt with, and most thoughtful people recognize this. It’s not strictly necessary for the things to be viewed through the filter of the Civil War experience, but it’s reasonable that they would, and probably doesn’t do much harm.
Giving the tired old “race card”, a spiffy new “historical analysis” outfit. Rather like hauling granny out of the nursing home to get her hair done.
I hope she mentions that the Democratic Party supported slavery and its expansion; that southern Democrats played the primary role in secession and the founding of the Confederacy; and that Democrats supported the Ku Klux Klan, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and lynching.
1. States Rights.
2. Blacks still enslaved by the Democratic Party.
3. Yankess still invading the South.
4. There still isn’t anything like Southern Sweet Tea.
that was a painful read. Of course the first part blamed all of the pre-secession woes on Evangelical Christians and tried to point to todays’ culture wars and religious intolerance as indicators of another coming conflict. Since I just lectured my students on the cycles of history and pointed out to them that talk of polarization in American politics is nothing new, I am going to send the link to them for them to read and discuss.
The article is nonsense. What it describes are political battles and arguments that are timeless, not unique to now and the Civil War era.
There is one similarity though: now and during the Civil War era, the Democrats were shameless race baters who exploited race to maintain their power.
Another vote for “Sweeut Tay” and grits.
Iraq or Libya makes somebody think of Sherman or Lincoln so we're still fighting the Civil War?
Civil liberties were restricted (by both sides) 150 years ago and today, so we're still fighting the Civil War?
Evangelicals believe in right and wrong and that "poisons the the political process" so the Civil War hasn't ended?
Who makes up this s#!t and why do you post it? Just to stir up arguments among people who are always up for the same stupid argument?