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I love how the idiots that rally around this piece-of-shit rag



A lot of people in the South have family that fought on the Southern side, and there is no shame attached to that. Their great-great-great granddad fought a good fight against an opponent with enormous material advantages and might well have won.

The problem is that to most Northerners the Civil War was about slavery but to most Southerners it was not (few Southerners owned slaves - slaves were expensive to buy and very expensive to keep). To Southerners it was more about damnyankees than anything else. Today that same split persists in terms os what the war about.

A Southerner at the time viewed Lincoln & friends the way we view Bush today - desperate for a war, meddling in affairs that the laws did not permit, etc. Bush fired the first shot whereas Lincoln did not, but on the other hand Bush looks like a genius as commander-in-chief compared to Lincoln. Slavery was well down the list of beefs Southerns had with Lincoln except amongst the very rich.
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