[SJackson]

Looks to me like harmless Halloween costumes for big kids but it often seems that the prevailing thought today is that every white southerner was an Ashley Wilkes, every girl a Scarlet O'Hara. The real Confederacy was ugly, rotten, dishonest and needed to be beaten for the good of all Americans of all races.

Oh please, if we'd discarded the founders from Virginia and points south, Hamiltion would have nationalized the banks and carriage makers over two centuries ago. While slavery might have been, they weren't ugly, rotten, and dishonest, it was a national failing, not far out of step with the times. From your picture I'd hang with the kids on the left any day.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I'll let a couple of quotes from the new leaders illustrate the moral gulf between the two sides:

Lincoln in 1858, to a Chicago crowd during his race against Stephen A. Douglas for the United States Senate seat from Illinois: “I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”

Jefferson Davis in 1860, in the United States Senate in response to a speech by Senator William H. Seward: “We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority.”