LEGEND OF THE REBEL SOLDIER

Charlie Moore and the Dixie Pardners's Classic set to a theme of Southern Independence.

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[jebstuart2]

@exenrontexas It is true that southerners were afraid to lose a 2 billion dollar investment, but most of the problem stemmed from the fact that the South was not given a fair voice in politics. If the entire southern half of the country can vote against a president, and the northern half be split in votes, then something is very wrong. Lack of fair representation was a good enough reason for the Americans to split from the British.

[TheMarumellow]

I like this song.

[exenrontexas]

@DixieRebel772 The second point is that what you apparently believe was not generally held by most Southerners at the time. Read the Southern newspaper articles on the subject or read the actual articles of secession passed in the respective Southern legislature. It is very much what I claim. But what they probably didn't talk about much was FEAR. The Southern fear that they would lose BILLIONS that they invested in slaves and what they might lose by blacks free in society. Peace.

[exenrontexas]

@DixieRebel772 Two more things and then I will let it lay. The comparison was more about fascist than Nazis. Nazism was a fascist personality cult based on race. The fascists could enslave anyone to serve their corporate masters. But both descend from the concept of Social Darwinism which basically is the survival of the fittest. That is an anti-American and anti-Christian view based on domination and by extension slavery. The natural extension of Social Darwinism is Eugenics.

[DixieRebel772]

the reasons behind the war, and if you wish to continue to debate in a gentlemanly way, you can PM me. As I said, I have no issues with debating the reasons for the war, but to compare my fathers to Nazis, never sir.

[DixieRebel772]

I have studied history for much of my short life, so I have read of the Dread Scott case but not in much detail. I have never read Stephen Ambrose's "The Civil War," though I have no doubt read many others of the same quality and subject matter. And on the Issue of State's Rights I must disagree again, that was not the only issue of State's Rights at the front. State's Rights to secede is the most obvious, however the issues of tariffs and economic issues. I don't have any issue on debating

[DixieRebel772]

@exenrontexas I must resolutely disagree. I don't think there is any Comparison between Nazis and Confederates outside of a view on race. But this was a view common throughout the the world not just in the South! And Southerners were not eugenicists like Nazis and would never have dreamed of the butchery they committed. Also the South did not force the war on the Union to FORCE the North to accept and enforce slavery, they were fighting for independence from the Union.

[exenrontexas]

Lee himself thought the war was wrong but could not turn his back on his home, Virginia. If the South had not had such good Generals, the war might have ended faster for the betterment of all. Remember it was the South who started the war so that they could FORCE the North to accept and support slavery. That is the ONLY state right that was at issue. Ever read the Dred Scott case? Or Stephen Ambrose's "The Civil War".It was Lincoln who said that he could accept slavery if the South rejoined US

[exenrontexas]

@DixieRebel772 It is true that between the common soldier there was kinship & even family in many cases. That was also true in a very few cases in WWII where German heritage GIs viewed the defeated Germans with pity although not as you say the SS. This is not at all true with the extreme resentment of many Southerners to the US Federal government which still exists today. And BTW, most of my relatives come from the South. I heard the term damn Yankee frequently growing up.The hatred is wrong

[exenrontexas]

@DixieRebel772 I think there is a comparision between what the fascists did and what the Southern plantations did and the way they both views groups of men and women. The fascist viewed slavs, poles and most non Aryans as a fuel for their industry in that they could and should work them to death. Those same large corps like Theissen, Farbin and Krupp literally used slaves to run their factories. It may be true that a few blacks were treated somewhat like part of the family but most worked hard.