[LEFT]There are some parallels today. Black Americans no longer pick cotton for the democrats instead they cast votes. Their masters no longer house them in shacks on their plantations, but in the projects of their inner cities. House slaves like the so called reverends Sharpton and Jackson get a better place in order to manage the production of their votes. Once again elements found mostly within the republican party seek their freedom.[/LEFT]
As Joe Tait used to say...Wham!.. with a right hand. The Democrats dirty little secret illuminated.
It is very interesting to get the neo confederate rational for the Civil War from an advocate of the extremist interpretation of the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Amendment. The Civil War was started when a group of
“very well educated and well placed” who thought their right to own other human beings was threatened roused a group of “ignorant hicks” to join them in their taking up arms against a popularly elected government. They were traitors.
Such a fundamental misinterpretation of history and how our great country came to be!
As divided as we sometimes seem to be today, we are exponentially more homogenous than the 13 colonies who banded together to throw off the King.
The forging together of a new nation was no simple task...it was a huge expanse of land from north to south, with equally diverse economic and politcal viewpoints. That 70 years later those differences in opinions and interests still existed should not be a surprise. It should be obvious how the political interests of the industrial North conflicted with the agricultural interests of the south...and how that simmered beneath the surface for years.
but it is so much more convienient to take the re written view as spun by the victors and parrotted by the left wing elitists....
that's pretty much the view of those "very well educated and well placed, they had a paranoid fear the government was going to take their property, so they persuaded a bunch of "ignorant hicks" to take up arms to protect them. Got some parallels today.
...it's so much easier to claim the moral high ground when you think you are dealing with paranoid "ignorant hicks".
it is always a great epiphany when someone realizes that small government is about freedom and empowerment....and that big intrusive government is about entrapment and enslavement and dependency.
eculiar institution.” That was their “agricultural interest.” It can be seen by declarations of their secession conventions and from the speeches and statements of Confederate leaders, just about all of whom were slave owners. They sold a bill of goods to a “bunch of ignorant hicks,” who did much of their dying for them. Now the rich are leading on many of their descendants.