Reply #34: Funny, when people start defending the Confederacy as "Southern Culture" [View All]

[theHandpuppet]

The parameters are solely those of the white, antebellum South. This is a real sticking point with me. I want to know when some 120,000 Southern Unionists will be included in these memorials and celebrations of Southern culture, not to mention some 95,000 black men who served from Southern units of the United States Colored Troops. Why are their statues not lining the streets of Richmond, what days of remembrance are declared for these forgotten Southern patriots? And how in the hell can any discussion of "Southern culture", or "history and heritage" as some neo-confederate apologists would have it, omit the history of millions of slaves, without whom Southern culture would not exist?