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Major Nikon

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17. Most German and Japanese war criminals escaped prosecution as well

Reply to Abu Pepe (Reply #16)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:47 PM

Sep 2017

There's plenty of things that could have been done, but we can't really know what those outcomes would be as lots of things have unintended consequences. The basic problem with democracy is eventually the people were going to elect their own leaders and it wasn't as if the former confederates couldn't be replaced with those of the same mindset. Regardless, political forces are ultimately going to prevail and those were the realities we were faced with. It's not an easy task to replace hundreds of years of past practices overnight.

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I was born and raised in the deep South and I am proud of my region of this great nation [View all] Abu Pepe Sep 2017 OP

But too many of them don't look at that period with shame. That's why I'm a Southerner who has no Hoyt Sep 2017 #1

Me neither. But so many were brainwashed in Southern Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #2

You have a point. I've told all I know that the American version of the Swastika id a symbol of hate Hoyt Sep 2017 #6

There is a lot about southern culture to be proud of. Much of it is also african american culture JI7 Sep 2017 #3

Hell yeah. Jazz, blues, Gospel. Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #10

Southern problem greeny2323 Sep 2017 #4

No but it could have been nipped in the bud after the US victory Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #7

I rescued dogs and puppies from the south for the last 10 years adigal Sep 2017 #5

And see for me. I think "Yankees" have better politics Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #8

My Midwestern dad felt the same way when he came out to the NE to visit me kcr Sep 2017 #11

Truthfully my favorite places are liberal enclaves in the South Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #13

Well, we are hectic and stressful, and also VERY materialistic!! True!!! nt adigal Sep 2017 #14

"50 years behind." bluepen Sep 2017 #18

Reconstruction was a "de-confederatization" program. roamer65 Sep 2017 #9

And along came the Redeemers to restore white supremacy Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #12

Which underscores how the challenge was much different than Nazi Germany Major Nikon Sep 2017 #15

Yes. But the leaders of the Confederacy, below Davis and the cabinet Abu Pepe Sep 2017 #16

Most German and Japanese war criminals escaped prosecution as well Major Nikon Sep 2017 #17

Religion was just a tool of the greedy, power-hungry and abusive--fueling Southern Paternalism. TheBlackAdder Sep 2017 #19