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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:26 PM Original message |
If DU was around at the time of the Civil War....? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think, in the case of the Civil War, it would have depended upon |
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jhrobbins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. This is absolutely the case, because I grew up in South Texas.. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Don't you mean 'The War of Northern Aggression'? |
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jhrobbins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. Thank you - that is another one I heard a million times too |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Do you think some thought it was truly "Northern aggression"? |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. the same damn way... I'd have attacked suspension of Habeas Corpus... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. Well, as a Democratic Party site, it would likely have been very critical of Lincoln. |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. And Colonel Angus...nt |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. I read a stat that almost 1 in 9 USA families owned a slave in 1790. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. I wouldn't be on DU. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. There is no proof that Lincoln gave a 'fiddler's fart" about slavery... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Baloney. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yes, I think that is true... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Now that's total bullshit. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Well, thanks for your informed opinion.. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. You're welcome. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:04 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. And what's your opinion of Rebel flags? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:05 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. They're basically swastikas. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:13 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I think it's also a Buddhist symbol... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. You must be right. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:15 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. You must love the History Channel? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:16 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Never watch it. Do you? |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. tit for tat.. |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. It was about slavery. Don't swallow the Lost Cause propaganda.... |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Since none of us were there at the time... |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. There are plenty of sources |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 06:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
40. 19th century US was literate. We know as much what people thought then, as what people think now. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 06:05 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. That is true.. |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bookmarked for later ... |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'd proably be connected on one of these ... |
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swimmernsecretsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. This kind of hypothetical presupposes that the circumstances are identical |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. It was about slavery. The "states rights" being fought for was for slavery. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. 1/3 of us would have supported the East, 1/3 the West , and... |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. yep... |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm Glad To See Someone Who Understands How Small A Part Slavery Played |
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verse18 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. If DU was around back then, |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 04:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Thanks for putting it in perspective, verse18.. |
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grizmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. I would have been on the side of the North |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
36. White men fighting over the land they stole. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
37. John Brown was certainly about slavery |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I believe... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 07:25 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Yet history has already decided on Lincoln |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 07:50 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. I believe the victors write the history... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 08:23 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. the victors did not write the history of John Brown |
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DivinBreuvage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 11:16 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. The victors certainly did not write the history of the Civil War |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-15-06 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
45. The war itself would have been transformed |
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