but I've tired of beating up on the Confederacy, the South, and Southerners for the day. Good luck getting other posters to chime in.
Civil war veterans were still living when I was a kid, so it wasn't all that surprising that some animosity towards the North, Northerners, and the Union remained in the general area of the South I grew up in, in the state I grew up in. Since my home county sided with the North, not much animosity there. I'm unaware of any hostility towards the North in today's South, but some pockets might well still be around. Where I grew up, we had completely stopped fighting the Civil War by the 1970s.
However, it seems to me that more than a few DU posters still bear malice towards the South and even today's Southerners. They may well be unaware of their bias, their prejudice even, but it's not hard to detect. They seem to want to start a civil war of sorts on DU -- presumably because the North won the Civil War and the South lost. If the the outgunned and outmanned South had won, I suspect those posters would be less antagonistic towards the South and Southerners.
Have at it. I will no longer participate in any way in these gangbangs. Nor will I ever again see anything you've posted. Not worth the bother. Please reciprocate by adding me to your Full Ignore List. I signed up here to be in an echo chamber so I wouldn't be annoyed and bothered. I've found out I can't succeed in achieving my non-annoyance objective unless I ignore some posters. Congratulations -- you're the second.
PS. Yes, I realize that the South seceded from the Union because of its desire to continue slavery. Even its desire to create a Slave Empire, at least to the south and to the west. But that was more than 150 years ago and its far past time to move on.
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