Comments on: Our Civil War

By: Ross Hetrick

Ross Hetrick — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:46:17 +0000

The amount of misinformation in this posting is breathtaking.

By: Lichanos

Lichanos — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:03:28 +0000

…or the Nazis ( which is a gentlemans’ club in Germany, if you must know that only had a very bad leader).

Whoo! Real,or parody..?

By: Madi

Madi — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:57:00 +0000

THE CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR WAS NOT SLAVERY. Heck, it was not even a civil war. And yes, the South could coexist with the North. They depended on eachother to thrive, but that was not recognized until after the split. The idea of slavery was not introduced into the war until the very end. Also, not every black in the South was a slave. There were over 200,000 free blacks in the south, and 10% of which owned slaves. The south was also built on cotton, not just slavery. And, when the war started free blacks and slaves chose to go fight. What they had in the south was family on the big plantations. In diaries of slaves it states they are pround to fight among thier masters. Also, blacks may have been free in the north but they were not accepted. Many blacks joined the Confederate army. For some of them it was just to fight and the CSA was the only nation who allowed blacks to fight with them. They stayed in camps together. Including blacks greatly increased the population of the Confederate army.
The Confederate flag you probably see flown in the south is the battle flag, not the flag of the government. In no way was that flag ever flown above any CSA government building. Over the past 150 years, the battle flag’s meaning has been twisted so that people think it means racism, but it doesn’t. In no way is it like the Swastika or the Nazis ( which is a gentlemans’ club in Germany, if you must know that only had a very bad leader).
You don’t fully ” contemplate the Civil War and its aftermaths” so i guess you are one of the millions in the country who thinks America is a Democracy and cannot fully ” understand American culture and politics today”

By: Lichanos

Lichanos — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:14:56 +0000

It’s probably been going on for some time, but the rebranding campaign to mark the war as a noble effort …

Since 1865, I’d say!

By: Ducky's here

Ducky's here — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:45:02 +0000

It’s probably been going on for some time but the rebranding campaign to mark the war as a noble effort to preserve states rights seems to have stepped up lately.

Despite the obvious evidence like South Carolina’s document of secession slavery has stricken from the conversation.

They managed to maintain the utterly doomed plantation agriculture economy for quite a while longer with share cropping slave labor.

By: Lichanos

Lichanos — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:09:29 +0000

Yep, way too many southern presidents, but it's inevitable, given the political results of the Civil War. Pride and shame... Interesting. I'd like to see a bit more of that shame, but maybe it's the cause of much orneriness.

By: troutsky

troutsky — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:17:20 +0000

I’ve lived south of the Mason-Dixie a couple of different times and agree with something I just read (can’t remember where) about a toxic combination of pride and shame. Mix in that dark, mystical religiosity and attention to “appearances” and you have a twisted culture which should be fenced off from the rest of the world. Instead we elect their favorite sons to lead us and worship NASCAR and football.

Then there is Texas…