For hundreds of years the rich man has started wars, but the little man does the fighting.
This purging of Confederate Generals names off of military bases. I'm surprised they were ever named after those generals in the first place.
And why is, after over 150 years, is the North and South still at odds over the actual issues that started that war in the 1st place.
What you older guys up north were taught about the causes, and what we Southern boys were taught about that war was way different.
You northern guys are convinced that your version of that history is the correct version. Your confident your government THE VICTORS told you the truth.
Well, you fellas seem comfortable ignoring Lincolns' own words and actions concerning blacks. The Morrill Act, the Emancipation Proclamation ect, ect, ect.
We Southern boys wonder why our own government would double the EXPORT TAX on cotton, and other textiles we sold to Europe trying to force Southern farmers to sell their cotton, and other textiles to the north at cheaper prices.
We wonder given our education, and knowledge of the fact that less than 5% of the southern farmers owned slaves, why the rest of the south was willing to fight for something they weren't a part of.
We as Southerners wonder why you guys believe it was about slavery, when Lincoln waited until 1863 to produce the Emancipation Proclamation. Why didn't he do that in 1860?
WE SOUTHERNERS KNOW THAT THE WAR WAS ABOUT "STATES RIGHTS" AND THE OF PRICE COTTON, AND OTHER TEXTILES.
Now, I know that most here are gonna try and make their case against what I've said, by repeating the Northern government THE VICTORS dictated version, with all sorts of this-es, and thats, but as has been said. The victor gets to record its own version "of history".
So now, your watching "history being re-written AGAIN", to a version you don't like BY THE GOVERNMENT AKA "THE VICTOR", and you know is not true, and THIS TIME "YOU" DON'T LIKE IT.
Well, welcome to the Southerners world. We've been watching it for 163 years.
Now I know there's gonna be a couple a "history buffs" that are gonna "take me to task" on what I just said. So in advance I'm gonna say: I'm gonna stick with Lincolns racist speeches, his attempts at flushing the blacks out of the country, his taxation trying to force Southern compliance, and the obvious common sense of sequences in history, while the "history buffs" regurgitate "the Victor's version".
MY POINT TO THIS IS, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT "I.E. THE VICTOR", HAS BEEN FEEDING EVERYONE
THEIR VERSION OF HISTORY SINCE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DECLARED WAR ON "STATES RIGHT".
THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T GIVE YOU THOSE RIGHTS. GOD DID.