This is like the sweetest historical irony ever
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 10, 2024, 05:08:12 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Discussion
  History (Moderator: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee)
  This is like the sweetest historical irony ever		 « previous next »
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: This is like the sweetest historical irony ever  (Read 1098 times)
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!
Kalwejt
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 57,380


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« on: July 22, 2019, 12:55:26 PM »
Tanglewood Plantation at Lynchburg, South Carolina, a beloved ancestral home to Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, one of the most notorious white supremacist ever to sit in that body, is now being owned by a biracial couple and their mixed race children.

http://www.tanglewoodplantation.com/history
Logged
J. J.
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 32,892
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2019, 02:55:12 PM »
A still was found on the Volstead farm.  Volstead sponsored Prohibition. 

In 1815, after the Napoleonic War, Europe had the Congress of Vienna to make Europe "safe from democracy."  In 1914, some of these countries went to war to make Europe "safe for democracy."
Logged
Kingpoleon
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 22,144
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2019, 03:25:12 PM »
Quote from: J. J. on July 22, 2019, 02:55:12 PM
A still was found on the Volstead farm.  Volstead sponsored Prohibition. 

In 1815, after the Napoleonic War, Europe had the Congress of Vienna to make Europe "safe from democracy."  In 1914, some of these countries went to war to make Europe "safe for democracy."
Uh, I have to interject and point out that Russia and France weren’t fighting to make Europe safe for democracy... They were fighting Germany because they felt threatened at the rapid industrial and economic growth of the country that lead the world militarily. Germany was far more democratic than most of the Entente’s allies, and certainly much more so than Russia.
Logged
Unconditional Surrender Truman
Harry S Truman
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 14,139


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 12:24:10 AM »
Quote from: Kingpoleon on July 22, 2019, 03:25:12 PM
Quote from: J. J. on July 22, 2019, 02:55:12 PM
A still was found on the Volstead farm.  Volstead sponsored Prohibition. 

In 1815, after the Napoleonic War, Europe had the Congress of Vienna to make Europe "safe from democracy."  In 1914, some of these countries went to war to make Europe "safe for democracy."
Uh, I have to interject and point out that Russia and France weren’t fighting to make Europe safe for democracy... They were fighting Germany because they felt threatened at the rapid industrial and economic growth of the country that lead the world militarily. Germany was far more democratic than most of the Entente’s allies, and certainly much more so than Russia.
Yes, the war to make the world safe for democracy was waged primarily in Woodrow Wilson's imagination.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.028 seconds with 11 queries.