Unkotare
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- Aug 16, 2011
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Don't take this personally but your anecdote has little relevance to the op. If Indeed you had such an ancestor, he could have fought on the Union side for many different reasons.....
Are you saying your ancestor was a liberal? .....
It seems he is saying his ancestor was not a democrat.
If JQ actually knew his US history he'd know that the Republican Party formed in the North around the Civil War and was mainly ex Democrats who opposed slavery. My ancestor was one of those!
As for your allusion to my knowledge of History, I assure you that it's just as good as or better than yours.
If you don't know that the Democratic and Republican parties are much different today than they were back then, I can rest assured that my history knowledge is greater than yours
I graduated with a degree in history from the University of Massachusetts. ....
Amherst? Lowell? Boston?