JLW
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Most of your post is just garbage. The white southern democrat jumped ship in the 60s and 70s. Can you say Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond? They were welcome with open arms by the Republicans. But I won’t argue the obvious with you. You post is best answered by a cartoon:What is "gallant" about the white south? This whole "confederate" thing is just about one group of people with an ideology that involved enslaving another group of people.
80% of the slaves working on plantations owned by about 4% of the white south... Do you think 250,000 Southerners at the time could be talked into DYING for their profits???
Complete cultural disconnect between North/South ante bellum.. Kinda just like today... North wanted "infrastructure projects" that the South did not need.. Was mucking with tariffs on farm equipment that was more critical to the South than the North.. That division raged in Congress for a couple DECADES and NOBODY FROM THE NORTH ever seriously threatened the concept of slavery in those Congresses... No bills filed to "free the slave".. No action taken to "tax them out of existence"... Instead they fought over "limiting the spread" of slavery to NEW states and territories..
Culture divides are deeper than one issue.. Even TODAY and ESPECIALLY TODAY... And those Southern Democrats who wanted slavery, formed the Confederacy, invented Jim Crow are STILL voting Dem because their great and grand and pappies voted Democrat and THEY flag the Confed flag as well... The NAME Democrat is a BIGGER more insidious VESTIGE of the Confederacy than the flag they used..
You should be coming up with a NEW name.. Like the Dixie Chicks became "The Chicks".. I suggest you become "The Crats".... I'll trade you that PURGE and call it even...
You should be ASHAMED of 150 years of YOUR party's history and leading role in the Confederacy and racism after Emancipation... THEN MAYBE when you get woke about that -- we can talk about YOUR parties "Stars and Bars"....