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The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singing (Original Post) packman Jul 2015 OP
I detest that song. It tries making the confederates the victims. BillZBubb Jul 2015 #1
i call for the ban of dixie cups also nt HFRN Jul 2015 #2
Good idea. Dixie Cup is a Koch Company Jack Rabbit Jul 2015 #6
no, i dont use disposable cups HFRN Jul 2015 #7
do you seriously think Joan Baez is a racist? nt HFRN Jul 2015 #3
Fully agree chapdrum Jul 2015 #5
Dissenting Jack Rabbit Jul 2015 #8
Politics aside, I love the Band and this is my favorite of all their songs drynberg Jul 2015 #4

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
1. I detest that song. It tries making the confederates the victims.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jul 2015

And Gen. Stoneman a villain.

Apologia for the confederates. No Thanks. They deserved everything they got and more.

 

HFRN

(1,469 posts)
7. no, i dont use disposable cups
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 06:45 PM
Jul 2015

and you are correct, dixie is owned by georgia pacific, which is owned by Koch

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
8. Dissenting
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:18 PM
Jul 2015

That they all deserved it is an overly broad statement. People like Virgil Caine were poor farmers, not the plantation owners who made a mint off slave labor. Who do you think suffered the most during and after the war? Gerald O'Hara, the owner of Tara and the father of an insufferable spoiled brat named Scarlet, or Virgil Caine?

Virgil Caine fought in the war, but he no doubt believed all the lies he was told about the virtuous and holy institution of slavery, just as many dead war heroes in Arlington and other American military cemeteries believed the lies they were told about Vietnam and Iraq, not to mention the Mexican War.

Virgil Caine is a simple, common man. He had nothing to do with the justifications for slavery that he believed. He didn't ask for the aristocratic plantation owners to secede from the Union. They're the ones who started and drove the war, not Virgil Caine.

The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down is not about the wrong-headed reasons for joining the Confederate Army that Virgil Caine heard. It is an anti-war song, and in my judgment a very good one. "There goes Robert E. Lee" commandeering the fruit of Caine farm and Mrs. Caine's labor in order to feed his army. It is a song about how going to war is a decision of the upper classes and the lot falls on the Virgil Caines of the world to fight, die and suffer.

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