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re: 5 Reasons not to ban the confederate flag
Posted on 6/27/15 at 3:43 pm to BrocraticMethod
Posted on 6/27/15 at 3:43 pm to BrocraticMethod
The core reason for the civil war was about states rights. I thought most everyone knew that, until I started reading threads on TD. Revisionist history only matters to the revisionists.
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Posted on 6/27/15 at 4:01 pm to kywildcatfanone
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The core reason for the civil war was about states rights. I thought most everyone knew that, until I started reading threads on TD.
That's probably because your only knowledge of the civil war is from 8th grade history class at some small town public school.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 4:21 pm to kywildcatfanone
Civil War was about state rights. The biggest state right issue was whether the south could continue with slavery. That isn't revisionist, that is the truth.
Regardless, how anyone thinks it is acceptable to fly a flag of traitors and rebels is absurd. More absurd to have it at public buildings and property. Confederacy was in open rebellion against the USA, "South Will Rise Again" people are lucky their ancestors weren't executed at the end of the war.
Regardless, how anyone thinks it is acceptable to fly a flag of traitors and rebels is absurd. More absurd to have it at public buildings and property. Confederacy was in open rebellion against the USA, "South Will Rise Again" people are lucky their ancestors weren't executed at the end of the war.
Posted on 6/28/15 at 3:37 pm to kywildcatfanone
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The core reason for the civil war was about states rights.
Ahh yes, the revisionists' go-to equivocating platitude . We've all heard it a million times, and yet they always keep the argument ambiguous and obtuse. States' rights for WHAT, exactly?
Posted on 6/28/15 at 5:11 pm to kywildcatfanone
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The core reason for the civil war was about states rights.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 10:47 am to kywildcatfanone
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The core reason for the civil war was about states rights. I thought most everyone knew that, until I started reading threads on TD. Revisionist history only matters to the revisionists.
I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. This, in my judgment, was the only alternative; and I foresaw that the South would be compelled, at some day, to make her selection. The day is now come, and Alabama must make her selection, either to secede from the Union, and assume the position of a sovereign, independent State, or she must submit to a system of policy on the part of the Federal Government that, in a short time, will compel her to abolish African Slavery.
Speech given at the Secession Convention of Alabama
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
SC Declaration of Secession
Sorry, the "States Rights" bullshite is the product of the Lost Cause myth. The core issue was slavery, plain and simple.
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