Toggle Dear..this is long so bear with me..
George A****** Bush is a Northerner. We in the South do not consider him to be Southern. His family maintains their Maine residence. Old granddad Bush was about to be charged with treason in 1942 for helping the American Nazi party launder money. He quickly put his ass in Texas and started making plans for his children's future. Newt Gingridge is another example, from Penn. Yes I admit we have our share of jerks in the republican party. They come from all regions.
I believe we should have parted ways in 1861 but kept close ties for commerce. Slavery was dying and Jefferson Davis laid out a plan to end slavery in the south. It required every slave owner to educate and give training for a profession to every enslaved person. His measure was defeated in the Confederate Congress by Howell Cobb, a much hated southern secessionist who happen to own more slaves than anyone else in the said congress. Mr. Lincoln wrote his wonderful emancipation act when he heard of the failure of Davis' proposal.
Bottom line Toggle, there are many of us here making efforts to free the south of republicanism. Your comments are always appreciated, as anyones, but please do not southern bash for the fun of it as it would not tolerated if you were bashing other ethnic groups. My great grandmother told me she was born a citizen of the Confederacy in 1864 and made a citizen of the United States in 1865 at gunpoint. She died in 1968.
Given the current state of things I would like to live like my grandparents did but without the "old time religion". Or southern politics. Or any politics.
Dear God I wish that damn war had never happened. I have to live with it every day in my job. I work with "living historians" doing the battle re-enactments. They consult for everything from correct uniforms (buttons, thread, colors) to weapons to food, to blah, blah,blah.
I am making a very strong effort on my "Home Front" to recycle, cut waste, have a home "Victory Garden", make my clothes as much as possible, can and freeze food items, and take as little as I can from the planet. Make my own soap, quilt, and how about learning to make regional wine as Thomas Jefferson suggested? Sounds good to me.
I have a good start on my garden this year. I plan to garden year round and encourage everybody to do as much as they can.
Any little garden spot in a yard can make a difference. Remember our families in the first and second world war's (other wars that should not have taken place).
I think the ultimate answer for us all is to learn to work together to make a better future by helping each other.
We have knowledge we can share to help our AW community get past this unfortunate time in our history.
I hope the republicans here understand we don't want to hang your sorry as* carcass but it's time for you to move out and go graze somewhere else. Unless you are looking for another Civil War.
The Republican party is moving the country to it.