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In reply to the discussion: Why weren't Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee executed as traitors? [View all]Response to karpool (Original post)
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The South got treated more like Germany after WWI than West Germany after WWII
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#4
Inviting Dixiecrats into the GOP was part of Nixon's Southern Strategy, iirc. nt
Hekate
Jan 2013
#40
"One whole party, the Republican Party, is a direct descendent of the racist southern secessionists.
JohLast
Jan 2013
#9
You will find that after Truman allowed blacks in the part in 48 that the south began its long
Agnosticsherbet
Jan 2013
#75
My friend, please look up "Southern Strategy" on Wikipedia. You need a history lesson.
Lex
Jan 2013
#59
But the OP goes beyond leadership, stating all in sympathy with the Confederacy should be killed or
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#43
I am not a historian, but they may have escaped death because they wanted to reconcile the
hrmjustin
Jan 2013
#26
So the entire Confederate Army, and their families, should have been executed?
Motown_Johnny
Jan 2013
#28
"A world of hurt for anybody who showed southern white pride." This kinda gives you away...
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#30
"The military trains their boots they are fighting for home town & mama not the USA"--What??
Hekate
Jan 2013
#46
"people can only feel empathy for 50 people at one time" --wtf? Seriously???
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#48
So you think we should've executed the whole German population after WWII? And all Japanese?
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#47
For the same reason Janet Reno could not have just got Koresh outside of Waco
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#49
Oh Honey, really? I think you're on the wrong site. Hatemonger Underground is down the hall.
nolabear
Jan 2013
#55
Well, they DID at least turn Lee's front yard into Arlington National Cemetary.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#64
They should have been and the failure to do so is why that certain parts of America
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#69