We are witnessing the viciousness of the confederacy

[AverageOldGuy]

7. The South has won the Civil War

I was born (1944) in deep rural SW Mississippi; the great-great grandson of slave owner. My g-g-grandaddy and his siblings and familiy owned over 300 enslaved people on plantations in SW Mississippi and SE Louisiana.

I left Mississippi in 1962 at age 18 and never looked back.

I was deeply embedded in the Jim Crow culture, the Black Codes, and Deep South social customs -- blacks did not look white people in the eye when talking, they had to cast their eyes down; my county was (still is) 75% black, only a handful voted; when we talked about "the war," we were talking about "The War Between the States," not the recently-concluded WW II; Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were saints, seated on the right hand of God the Father -- at least that's what I learned in school, church, and family.

I've been watching the South be converted from white supremacist Democratic control the white supremacist Republican control.

I have been back home for funerals and the conversations with my cousins are filled with the same racist shit I heard in the 1950's . . . they just temper it a bit. Schools are segregated -- black kids go to public schools, white kids to "the academy". (Read the Wikipedia article on "Segregation Academies".)

The South won the Civil War, Trump's election was just the ceremony where the rest of us signed the surrender documents.

Read Heather Cox Richardson's book "How the South Won the Civil War."