hipeter924
Not a zombie yet
Ha ha, fail. You need to get over the ass kicking you got during the civil war, and focus on reality.It's no coincidence that the heart of the resistance to marriage and racial equality has been in the South. The South has a long history intolerance and inequality. It's no coincidence that the southern states unlike most other states only accepted women's suffrage when it was forced on them by the 19th amendment. Nor is it a coincidence that the Equal Rights Amendment failed because not a single southern state would ratify it. In small southern towns Jews, Catholics, and foreigners were regarded with suspension throughout most of the 19th and 20th century. The Klan repeated pressured local and state government to ban government hiring of Catholics and Jews.. Although the South has changed a lot in the last hundred years, much of the old intolerance and bigotry of the past still exists.
I don't see why it's so hard for people to understand.
I absolutely loathe the way the current 'Republicans' consider themselves to be members of the 'Party of Lincoln.'
What an embarrassment. If he were resurrected today, he'd be a registered Democrat by tomorrow.
My rule of thumb when it comes to social issues: If the majority of South agrees with it, it should probably be banned.
Since Lincoln was a bloodthirsty mass murdering tyrant, I also loath it.
Lincoln had his flaws, but being bloodthirsty or power hungry weren't it. The real irony is that if the South had remained in the union, then it would have taken till the 1960s just to free all the slaves - as northern states would have probably conceded to compromise.
Instead the South had a temper tantrum and left the union, and went secessionist wanting to build their own country.
So rather than blaming the North and Lincoln, you should look to those politicians that left the government, and surrendered the political representation of their states.