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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pat W. who wrote (10505)	1/31/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is interesting, but untrue. Although it is true enough that most Southerners were not slave- holders, there was a terrible fear of overturning the racial order, setting black labor into indiscriminate competition with white, and allowing miscegenation. Most had a stake in maintaining white supremacy, and feared abolition, certainly uncontrolled abolition. The Civil War was all about racial subordination, and Robert E. Lee was merely the Rommel in the equation, an honorable officer who let himself be used out of loyalty. I understand the impulse to honor one's ancestors, and if Southerners left it at honoring gallantry, instead of defaming Lincoln and the North, I might leave it alone. If it were viewed as a national tragedy all around, maybe I would leave it alone. But instead, it always becomes "the War of Northern Aggression", or "the Second War of Independence", and that is unacceptable.....