re: The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is.

I was reading until he started trying to connnect wealthy white slave owners to Rush Limbaugh and Republicans.

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For example, a map of states that didn’t expand Medicaid – which would actually be a boon mostly to poor whites – resembles a map of the old Confederacy with a few other poor, rural states thrown in. Another indication that this divisive propaganda works on Southern whites came in 2012. Romney and Obama evenly split the white working class in the West, Midwest and Northeast. But in the South we went 2-1 for Romney.

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So if a southern white person has a differing opinion, it must be the result of some propaganda campaign? And the only explanation for opposition is that other side MUST be misinformed or manipulated?

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But that vast wealth was invisible outside the plantation ballrooms.

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I read that quite a lot of the big shots in the south that lost the ability to keep making their fortunes due to the South losing moved onto the financial sector (wall street).

This is pretty on point. That's why we have so much Wal Mart Republicanism in the South.

The powers that be, in my opinion on both the R & D side, want the working middle class divided by race. It's nowhere near as overt as in the past, but the signs are obvious if you look at them.

The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell."- Alexander Stephens VP of the Confederacy

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Cleansing history is never the answer, regardless of how many statues or flags come down.

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This.

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How did the plantation owners mislead so many Southern whites?

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he lost me right here

...my ancestors in Western NC fought for their state and their land...politicians in a far way place were bound and determined to decide what was wrong and right for those they didn't know or understand...and then Yankee armies threatened to force their sovereign state to comply with staying IN the Union by force?...nah man...that shite wasn't going down like that...

not for a bunch of Scots-Irish and German immigrants....and holdover Cherokees that had not forgotten what that same government had done to them not 20 something years before..

author is a liberal white guilt try hard pussy..imho

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...my ancestors in Western NC fought for their state and their land...politicians in a far way place were bound and determined to decide what was wrong and right for those they didn't know or understand...and then Yankee armies threatened to force their sovereign state to comply with staying IN the Union by force?...nah man...that shite wasn't going down like that...

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You illustrate the point of the article. No doubt your ancestors as well as plenty of mine fought because they believed that...but the FACT is the primary issue of the war was the economic impact of getting rid of slavery.

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the most prideful flag waivers . . .

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