SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: a large historical shift is under way

[Dawson Leery]

14. Lincoln's great error!

"At the same time, the Southern way of life began to be embraced around the country until, in a sense, it came to stand for the “real America”: country music and Lynyrd Skynyrd, barbecue and NASCAR, political conservatism, God and guns, the code of masculinity, militarization, hostility to unions, and suspicion of government authority, especially in Washington, D.C. (despite its largesse). In 1978, the Dallas Cowboys laid claim to the title of “America’s team”—something the San Francisco 49ers never would have attempted. In Palo Alto, of all places, the cool way to express rebellion in your high-school yearbook was with a Confederate flag. That same year, the tax revolt began, in California."

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Lincoln made a grave error by taking Andrew Johnson as his VP.
The "old south" (culture) needed to be eliminated and the region rebuilt, the same way we rebuilt Europe after the Second World War.