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To: Tommaso who wrote (276610)2/8/2004 1:25:21 AM
From: Tom Smith  Respond to of 436258
 
Seems to me it was a call to thwart the northern threat as it, at the same time, harkened back to a simpler, peaceful, antebellum life...in essence, a call to fight for the status quo of the old south. Does seem strange that a mere 140 years ago most folks must have readily understood the concept words "look away" while today they seem so foreign.....may have had something to do with that archaic gold standard rotting their collective brains......-s