If the Federal Government had respected states rights....

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are you just trying to stir up trouble. And while we're at it, what southern pronounces the word American "murrican"...Most southerners don't pronounce r's or g's. A southerner would say it, "A meh, short r, ih, cehn"

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are you just trying to stir up trouble. And while we're at it, what southern pronounces the word American "murrican"...Most southerners don't pronounce r's or g's. A southerner would say it, "A meh, short r, ih, cehn"

It is a valid question my friend. As Fezzy Festoon admitted, the South even in the 21st century would still be a world pariah apartheid state. Thus, those who call the South backwards and reactionary are entirely correct in their accusations.

You are operating off of incorrect history, but fortunately, I can correct you. Slavery was already collapsing in the 1850s because it was an investment intensive enterprise, and because people really aren't a tangible asset, as far as a bank is concerned, because people expire. Biggest mistake South made in the war, besides not moving on Washington in 1861, and troop movements at Gettysburg, was not offering freedom for service to draw up troops in 1862. But slavery was going to collapse, and the only reason Jim Crow happened is because of the corruption of Reconstruction Republican governments, which were elected on the backs of blacks but which did nothing to help them, and so of course, when Reconstruction ended, the white public blamed blacks for the excesses of Reconstruction authorities

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McSteel is providing his humble analysis of southern culture.

That's the one thing I've noticed. Without question, the defenders of the South have behaved in a far more gentlemanly manner than the detractors of it. The manner in which a person chooses to present their argument on a position says something about the merit of that position

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The manner in which a person chooses to present their argument on a position says something about the merit of that position

Style-over-substance fallacy. You can stick your Sweet-Home-Alabama-Colonel-Sanders-Southern-Comfort-down-home-charmy manners straight up your ass.

I see you've taken Formal Logic 101. Never mind the fact that you are trying to attack my credibility by insulting me, and I have yet to insult anyone except for maybe Governor Fordice, and use appeals to prejudice in every argument you use, and never mind the fact that when I corrected an error, rather than accept it, you went back, changed the error, and then tried to accuse me of making a mistake. There's no question who has more honor in this one.

Having said this, I gladly welcome you to our town. We've got Beau Rivage, the Grand, the IP, the Hard Rock and Jimmy Buffett is building a casino now. Never mind Isle of Capri, Treasure Bay, the Atlantic City of the South, wouldn't mind a boardwalk on the gulf rather than the tacky manmade beach (largest in the world). I miss the charm of the old strip, but we get top name entertainment in town, often times better than the haughty city on the Mississippi 60 miles to west. So bring friends, family, etc, and have a wonderful time in what is now the Playground of the South, what is becoming the Playground of America, and what was for a century, the playground for two cities that are 60 miles in either direction for us. Katrina knocked us for a loop, but we came back from Camille and we're roarin' back from this one