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Demsrule86

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26. That is true...but Charlottesville area is becoming an extension of Northern Virginia.

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Mon May 15, 2017, 09:51 AM

May 2017

Albermarle County went for Hillary by more than 20 points...59% to 34%. It is not a red area.

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Analysis of a Robert E Lee quote about slavery seems pertinent to today's conversation [View all] ProudLib72 May 2017 OP

The protest was not in Richmond, it was in Charlottesville. Yonnie3 May 2017 #1

Jefferson's University of Virginia trof May 2017 #6

Yes and rally leader, white supremacist Richard Spencer, got a BA at UVA in 2001. n/t Yonnie3 May 2017 #7

Yeah, I think I just looked at where it was filed ProudLib72 May 2017 #8

This is local, so it jumped out at me. Yonnie3 May 2017 #10

My point is the absurd rationalization of racism ProudLib72 May 2017 #12

Ha! I was worried someone might think I was condoning them. Yonnie3 May 2017 #15

The south truly was devastated by the war Yupster May 2017 #17

Most of those there are from elsewhere... Demsrule86 May 2017 #22

The city is not redneck but Yonnie3 May 2017 #24

That is true...but Charlottesville area is becoming an extension of Northern Virginia. Demsrule86 May 2017 #26

Yes, but blue mostly near the city. Yonnie3 May 2017 #27

I wonder if he died still rationalizing evil. Boomerproud May 2017 #2

Isn't every age Yupster May 2017 #18

I think he was trying to rationalize something in a different time. kentuck May 2017 #3

By the end of his life Lincoln did. Thaddeus Stevens was always there. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #4

We would have been treestar May 2017 #5

Today is not all that different ProudLib72 May 2017 #9

I like your posts, but disagree on this point: raccoon May 2017 #29

I didn't explain that correctly in the previous post ProudLib72 May 2017 #32

Just before the end of the Civil War, Yupster May 2017 #33

Wow. Now that is interesting. nt raccoon May 2017 #35

It was a very interesting tid-bit of US history Yupster May 2017 #37

What did Lincoln (and congress) make of Grant pulling rank? ProudLib72 May 2017 #38

Yes, Grant was pushing Lincoln to do what he thought he wanted to do anyway Yupster May 2017 #39

Historians call it Yupster May 2017 #20

Why were there generals like Grant who truly believed in the cause they were fighting for? DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #23

Lee was an unreconstructed racist. Buzz cook May 2017 #11

I agree ProudLib72 May 2017 #13

Revisionists keep trotting out the "arm the slaves" letter Buzz cook May 2017 #16

Lee wanted to arm the slaves because Yupster May 2017 #19

He was a traitor, plain and simple, and quite frankly, what we now call white priviledge is... brush May 2017 #28

It was only fitting that his inherited estate became Arlinton Cemetary. Scruffy1 May 2017 #14

Which general do you think would have done significantly better than Lee Yupster May 2017 #21

My Confederate ancestor survived Pickett's charge... VOX May 2017 #25

Interesting post. That's good that you know so much about him. raccoon May 2017 #30

True. He wasn't on the muster sheet until April, 1862... VOX May 2017 #34

Sadly, it wasn't only a Southern ideology. Caliman73 May 2017 #31

Lee was speaking from the ignorance engendered by his privilege. n/t Orsino May 2017 #36