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user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong.

The Civil War wasn't about slavery !





am_Unition  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"My #1 passion in life is states' rights."

user-inactivated  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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am_Unition  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

m4m, lookin 4 muddin buddy.

must have 4 wheel drive and rebel spirit.

preferrably chevy plz.

briandmyers  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not.

The article asserts that people are being taught, wrongly, exactly what you say here. Any opinion on that? From the article :

    Yet when each state left the Union, its leaders made clear that they were seceding because they were for slavery and against states’ rights.
Quatrarius  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, flagamuffin is not serious. Yes, flagamuffin is making a joke.

briandmyers  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for that.

I hear people assert this all the time, and I believed it myself when I was younger.

b_b  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In a recent conversation I had with a Texan, I heard the Civil War referred to as "the war of northern aggression." It was said with sincerity, but a slight veil of embarrassment. Sadly, I think a lot of people from your homeland feel this way.

user-inactivated  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've heard very old people and actual neo-confederates call it that, but it isn't common.

b_b  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This was from a 21 year old girl from Texarcana.

user-inactivated  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow. I'm surprised a 21 year old knew that phrase, to be honest. That she had a misshaped view of Civil War history is par for the course, but calling it the war of northern aggression implies a certain involvement or extraordinary bitterness.

b_b  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

She's definitely a racist, albeit a polite one. I suppose that's the antebellum spirit alive and well.

user-inactivated  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sons of Confederate Veterans/United Daughters of the Confederacy types use it. No idea how big either is in Texas, but there are plenty of them in the southeast still.