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In reply to the discussion: The ONLY place I find incessant discussion about the Civil War [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)I have had the privilege of traveling and living in most parts of the USA.
While poverty, ignorance, and fundamentalism IS a problem is The South,
the raw racism and bigotry on public display in Idaho and western Montana
eclipses [i[by far anything I have witnessed in The Old South.
It is not an accident the the HQ of the Aryan Nation is in Idaho.
Most Western States have not yet internalized the fact that they are direct beneficiaries of
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing waged by the Army of The North against the Native Americans.
It is ironic that the Army of the North, after winning a War to Free the Black Man,
immediately turned West and waged a War of Extermination against the Red Man.
The Old South had absolutely nothing to do with THAT one.