As Emo Philips has a joke: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same birthday which is fitting because they’re the two biggest enemies of the South.
Being an American living in any region, even abroad, it is a painfully true statement about America’s dumbest, poorest and most regressive states. What is more frustrating is how the South has spread their disease to my former homeland, the Midwest. Today, the majority of Americans fail to give the correct reason on why the US Civil War happened, let alone Secession. We also live with the lazy journalism of “both sides do it” bullshit.
I think we’re finally seeing the tide turn. Confederate statues, plaques and excuses are no longer being tolerated. Now what we need to do is eradicate the Orwellian language and bigger lies the South has been telling since Reconstruction.
- It never was the War of Northern Aggression. The South started it when they attacked Fort Sumter. The ass-kicking they then received was well deserved.
- The horror stories about the Federal Army marching through Georgia need to be verified (I will look them up) but the massacres of Federal troops, especially Black volunteers, by Confederate soldiers have been proven at Memphis.
- The South loves to bring up Lincoln’s un-Constitutional maneuvers while executing the war. However, they have amnesia regarding Jefferson Davis’ police state. For example, travel papers were required.
- Every state except South Carolina (the worst of the bunch) contributed at least 1500 men to the US Army, demonstrating there was dissent in dying for what many called a rich man’s war.
Long ago, Lyndon Johnson knew the South had to change if it wanted to participate in the rest of the nation’s economic growth. Therefore he scarified the Democrats’ long-term fortunes to pass those Civil Rights’ laws the Republicans via SCOTUS have been dismantling. Instead, the Republicans woo’d that gaggle of racists and spread their sick cancer via Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes and Trump. We Yankees and our allies are fighting back. The Republicans have been mostly purged from high positions in California and the Northeast, delegating them to a regional, race party. I hope to see Texas turn mostly Blue before I die via the side effects of Climate Change.
May we continue to honor those who gave their lives to defeat the Confederacy by keeping up the fight in defeating the Neo-Confederates, Nazis and Southern Apologists for good.