tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post3782882645265161956..comments2024-03-19T02:18:52.553-07:00Comments on The American Human: The Civil War Isn't OverAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post-41542037210232785942014-06-02T09:09:54.530-07:002014-06-02T09:09:54.530-07:00........I was stationed in Texas during the early ...........I was stationed in Texas during the early '60s at Corpus Naval Air and the Orange,Texas "moth ball fleet." I recently returned on vacation and found the attitudes of southern people there haven't changed, and I was referred to in every introduction as "a Yankee." I've lived in Prineville, Oregon - Darby, Montana - Toledo, Ohio - and Jacksonville, Florida.... but it seems like Texas is stuck in a time warp of 153 years ago.; attitudes there haven't changed.R. Ray Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999343635441291889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post-26357529972421130832014-01-12T09:50:18.034-08:002014-01-12T09:50:18.034-08:00Check out any country Global and American Cival w...Check out any country Global and American Cival wars never end they as in nature go dormant. The North is looking over the South because they see economic potential. The South still and always holds promise and regional enterprise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post-52597574390285300272012-11-24T02:48:18.767-08:002012-11-24T02:48:18.767-08:00After the civil war all the wealth was transferred...After the civil war all the wealth was transferred to the north from both the south and the plains states, Most people in those states work or worked for industries owned in the north or which were controlled by northern traders. Largely poor because of this, although better off then southern blacks. They have been beaten over the head about some supposed white privilege, which if it exist at all is the is counter balanced by the privilege to sweat for little, and die youngdaddtoscarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288517609299416378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post-77150198892532490072012-10-21T10:43:22.547-07:002012-10-21T10:43:22.547-07:00Excellent comment. I too moved to the South, Hines...Excellent comment. I too moved to the South, Hinesville, Georgia, in 1956. When my older brother was asked where he was born, his answer of Ohio was met with fists. I was nearby, and it shocked me. When I went to Mobile, Alabama in 1988, I was amazed that the town was essentially segregated. I marveled at the all-black Mardi Gras high-school marching bands (Mobile maintains it started the Mardi Gras parade tradition). White Mobilians screamed with delight but would probably never want them in their neighborhoods otherwise. Of course I generalize, but my time in the South never exposed me to anything but this continuing racism. Hopefully times and generations will change things, but just look at the GOP support in states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas (a de facto Southern state) and we know things will probably change very slowly. There is much that is charming and rich about the South, but its political leanings isn't one of them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870038576818664268.post-19798192675320600372012-10-20T22:13:28.947-07:002012-10-20T22:13:28.947-07:00Excellent discussion of the multifactorial 150+ ye...Excellent discussion of the multifactorial 150+ years friction of North v. South. When we arrived in Alabama from Pennsylvania to spend the first half of the 60's, I was dumbfounded as a 10 year old to find the oddest thing beginning: a resurgence of racist pride among the natives of the area. Was really easy to link it to desegregation rulings and "interference" of states' rights by the "Union" government, but a lot more complex since there was such a high percentage of the southern whites I went to school with who had relatives in the war. Never met anyone in my first 10 years in Pennsylvania & Ohio who'd had relatives in the war, nor any since in Pennsylvania or California. That being said, I found no viable excuse for the manner which the VAST majority of the population obsessed on something that happened 100 years earlier and how they wanted to extend virtual slavery forever through poll taxes and literacy tests required of African Americans but generally set aside for poor whites. Since history has shown that the battlefield dead of invading armies are typically treated like so much garbage, I somewhat understand the Union's lack of concern regarding the war dead of the traitorous Confederacy. Our military currently is fairly over-represented by the former rebellion states and I find it interesting that the troops in Iraq & Afghanistan found blood feuds there dating back centuries, made fun of the situation in multiple published accounts, yet failed to recognize any irony therein. Vile politicians have done nothing but exacerbate the situation through using the coded messages you mention above after the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act. First George Wallace, before the KKK wing of the Democratic Party collapsed, followed by the Republic Party "Southern Strategy" pioneered by Tricky Dick and then every subsequent GOP national candidate since. Changing demographics over the next 20+ years will make for an interesting impact on popular and electoral politics since the pro-Caucasion policies of the GOP should keep it virtually lily white (it's over 90% white now) into the foreseeable future. Rick Greaneynoreply@blogger.com