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forest444

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4. Well said. One for the bookmarks.

Reply to daybranch (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 11:14 PM

Aug 2015

What you detailed above also dovetailed with the well-documented (but much ignored) fact that most European royal families - as well as other seats of power like the Vatican - were active supporters of the Confederacy. And while creating a massive economic colony was certainly a motivation, the fact that the CSA would have been a crass, brutal plutocracy of the kind Europeans themselves were quickly leaving behind at the time, was probably just as appealing to Europe's 19th century despots.

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The Confederate myths too many Americans believe [View all] forest444 Aug 2015 OP

you leave out some very important facts, the continued class war daybranch Aug 2015 #1

Well said. One for the bookmarks. forest444 Aug 2015 #4

Great post. Should be an OP. nt raccoon Aug 2015 #8

Good stuff. marble falls Aug 2015 #2

Thank you, goodstuff. forest444 Aug 2015 #3

The fact that poor whites were fighting to continue slavery is reflected by the Tea Party voting ... marble falls Aug 2015 #5

Good point. forest444 Aug 2015 #6

Exceptional article. Glad to see the News-Observer carried it! Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #7

There was not much love in the north for blacks either modrepub Aug 2015 #9