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In reply to the discussion: The ONLY place I find incessant discussion about the Civil War [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)25. I took your rather cryptic post as being pro-South bashing
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The ONLY place I find incessant discussion about the Civil War [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Nov 2012
OP
To back up your post, in 1641, Massachusetts was the first American colony to legalize slavery....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#23
And here we have yet another post lumping an entire region together because of what...
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#19
You mean it's a point that doesn't fit your agenda and preconceived notions..
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#46
Using a carving completed forty years ago to characterize the South today is your point?
antigone382
Nov 2012
#50
My whole family is from the South. We had a 1993 family reunion at Stone Mountain.
Aristus
Nov 2012
#22
I grew up in rural southern Georgia, and heard LOTS of talk about the civil war.
MNBrewer
Nov 2012
#16
Oh, so you are NOT talking about the breakup of the folk duo, The Civil Wars?
Chiyo-chichi
Nov 2012
#20
I'm in the South, my great-great grandfathers fought for the Confederacy, I'm a yellow-dog Democrat.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2012
#27
LOL!! I SO agree. The South doesn't talk about the Civil War. The South talks about being POOR!
nolabear
Nov 2012
#28
The only Supreme Court Justice to vote against Jim Crow came from a slave holding family in Kentucky
Uncle Joe
Nov 2012
#59
We should put it aside and focus on more recent events like the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#38
The people who support flying the dixie flag are the same ones Pro-NRA Pro-Gun, the Ron Paul fans
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#51
I always enjoy tremendously the DU Civil War threads (and try to participate
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#53