OK well I want to know what yall think of the CSA and if you don't know what that is then you probably don't like it for any one thats a little bit of a Yankee the CSA is the confederate states of America long live Dixie yall
It took 4 years and a vastly numerically superior army and economy but we finally beat johnny reb into the ground
I've driven thru the south and lived in Florida and my impression is that some of the issues from the civil war are still pretty important to southern folks.
hell yeah they are boy O and what this beat the johnny rebs bull shit don't you know the south won the war and for the record the flag I salute has thirteen stars
i've lived in both the north and the south. the south is a first class shithole! you all need to read the works of harry turtledove and see the movie c.s.a. the c.s.a. was a fake republic; it was in reality an olicarchy. it never was a real republic like the union states are. the south is nothing but a cancer on the rest of the u.s.a. and, the world. the c.s.a. belongs in history, right next to soviet russia and nazi germany as one of the greatest killing machines in human history and a failed experment.
damn it don't be all up tight man shit theres times I us the term boy with my 30 year old brother its just an expression you know if nothing else this shows how many cotton picken yankee's there are on this site well I guess I shouldn't be surprised the term redneck hippie is a bit of an oxymoron
The South started a war, got their asses handed to them and have had an inferiority complex ever since. btw: German Neo Nazis adopted the Stars and Bars since the Swastika is illegal in their country. I'm proud of the fact that one of my ancestors General Lew Wallace fought to preserve the Union and free the slaves. He later wrote a little book called Ben Hur.
We learn from our mistakes. Hopefully we're smart enough to not repeat the ignorance displayed by our southern (i'm southern btw) ancestors. The issue of a states autonomy was important to defend though. Except slavery goes beyond state autonomy IMO and the constitution of the United States. No one should own another human being. It's also funny that usually you see lower income whites waving the confederate battle flag. But the issue of slavery was important, not to low income whites, but to well to do plantation owners (whites). Believe me, they didn't care about anyone that was lower income. They still don't (but that's true all over, not just in the south).
I'm no Southerner, but I figure if the thirteen states of the CSA wanted to leave the U.S., let them go. The slaves would have eventually freed themselves through insurrection or emigration. Mexico, which never supported slavery, might have reconquered Texas, and kept California, Arizona and New Mexico, for the benefit of all concerned. Southern slaveowners would have been isolated and eventually they would have freed their own slaves when the industrial revolution obsoleted many of the field chores. However, when the ugliness of white southern society is considered, the question remains, why did the northerners want to keep them in the Union?
Because as Lincoln said " A house divided against itself can not stand." He knew he had to preserver the Union so the USA would not become a bunch of squabbling nation states like Europe was at the time. The South fired the first shot so some might say it was a war of Southern Aggresion.
Ibe a-ta, 'good to see an American who is proud of his American heritage, albeit Southern. I am a Westerner living in the Old Dominion. While I do not like Tidewater, I love my little town of Whaleyville. That is correct, I am a city boy living in the country. And as stated in another post, it is so quiet that the bugs are loud. As to the CSA, that was one fine army in spirit and leadership. We are talking the likes Baldy Ewell; Joe Johnston, who was the ranking officer leaving the Federal Army going into the CSA (having served as a quartermaster general); his namesake Albert Sydney Johnston, having left his Federal Command in shipshape (as many Southern officers did before resigning their old Army commissions), traversed a very dangerous route to the East to serve with the newly formed CSA; Ambrose Powell Hill, had his captured trains of supply commandeered from an interfering Shank Evans that I will never forgive; the dashing JEB Stuart who led his father-in-law on a cavalry chase early in the war; and let us not forget Nathan Bedford Forrest, probably the one true genius in the conflict (next to a very innovative Lincoln). Ibe a-ta, we have a young engineer at work who is a spitting image of Beauty (that was Stuart's nickname at the 'point, for you Northerners). When I apprised him of such, he replied with, "I don't know who you are talking about." I told him that as a Southerner, he should know who Stuart is. Another young engineer at work (from South Carolina) did not know that Gettysburg was a battle in the War Between the States. Appalling. By the way, my wife is a Girl Raised In The South. My mother-in-law occassionally refers to me as boy (I am 52), and I know it doesn't mean anything. I cannot eat most Southern food (I keep a kosher diet), but have learned how to eat grits (G.R.I.T.S.). And have witnessed Northerners to be more prejudiced than Southerners when it comes to having blacks at the supper table (that is the evening meal to you non-Southerners). I guess I will be seeing you around, boy. take care, JKHolman
They were just trying evict somebody that wouldn't leave their back yard when asked nicely. The problem is that the CSA clearly had the right end of the argument over states' rights (including the right to secede from the union) ... but the wrong end of the argument over slavery. Kinda sucks, really ... but there it is. They hoped for British help, but we Brits were never going to intervene in support of slavery. We weren't even going to let the South fight for two or three years and THEN intervene and claim all the glory.
