Democrats, Detroit and Newark, is this our future?

[CrusaderFrank]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/nyregion/02newarkcops.html

Life during wartime

People will continue to flee the Liberal run hell holes; do we need a troop surge in Newark?

 

[snjmom]

here are some of the things that created tensions between north and south.
as I understand them..
Southern States objected to.....\
a large centralized government centered in the north.
the power that centralized government had over what the south considered "sovereign states".
The "rich industrialized north" pushing around those in the "poor agricultural south"...
the outlawing of slavery by the north while those in the south needed a source of (very) cheap labor to tend the fields...
Mostly it was a battle over the south's interpretation of States Rights vs the North's and Washington DC's view of same.
Anyway, the point is the view that black voters have been told to have vis a vis the GOP is patently false. However democrats have successfully implanted the message to blacks that says "vote for us and we will give you things"...

The sovereign state argument was over when the Articles of Confederation was replaced by the Constitution. It certainly wasn't a war over interpretation of states's rights. No other right was ever in question, other than the right to consider other human beings as property and have them treated by the law as such. Civil War revisionism is just as evil as Holocaust denial. The war was fought over the right to have slavery declared legal in newly opened territories. The right to count slaves as citizens for the purpose of representation and as property in the eyes of the law. To assert there was any other underlying cause is pure bullshit. The South had veto power over the Fed to ensure the continuation of slavery, as demonstrated by the pairing of free/slave states for admittance to the union. Read the Declarations for the Causes of Secession. The war was fought over slavery, period.

Yeah..Ok....Growing up in the Northeast, I used to believe that. That's because that is what was passed along in the American history classes of public schools.
Look, the slavery issues was just one part.
The Left and anti-South folks want to believe that the entire region east of the Mississippi and south of Baltimore is made up of Bible Thumping Whites only TV preacher donating, NASCAR watching inbred non higher education confederate Battle Flag waving jagoffs.
There is a shocking amount of liberalism here in the South. I can't stand it.
However most folks form other regions of the US have always bought into an inaccurate account of why the civil war was fought. You have that belief. You can go along with it and keep your mind closed. So be it. We're done.

Have you read The Declarations for the Causes of Secession? That is straight from the horses mouth as to the cause of the war, which was secession, and the cause of secession, which was the fear of losing the ability to keep slaves. The right of the south to their property, which they also wanted counted as citizenry, which is kind of psychotic. States rights to treat those whom they would count as citizens when it came to the number of representatives in Congress, as property to be bought and sold, and with the Dred Scott decision, the forced submission of the free state laws to the slave states.

Saying the Civil War was only about slavery in a minor way is like saying the Holocaust didn't really center on racial issues and was more about the WWI war reparations.

Sheesh.