Reply #46: Thank you for posting this Yupster...

[hlthe2b]

I remembered this history with respect to Davis, but couldn't remember enough details to post a coherent summary.

And, I have to admit, I find it frustrating that so many are so ill-informed about this, among the most important chapters in US history. Like Bush and his "either with us or 'gin' us," "evil versus good mentality," so many Americans are content to boil the whole thing down to an assumption that Southerners were traitors. Unfortunately, that seems to flavor discussion of the South, as a region today (as we've seen from time to time in unfortunate threads here on DU).