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Watch Live: Trump Rants Again in Florida

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus8/10/2016 7:04:31 pm PDT

This again:

Where the Confederacy Is Rising Again

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“I had five grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy, and they were religious people who didn’t treat black people badly,” Toungate said, earnestly, his Southern drawl growing thicker as he spoke. “They were fighting for states’ rights, not slavery.” According to Toungate, before secession, the federal government mistreated Southern states by issuing unfair tariffs. “Thirty thousand blacks fought for the Confederacy because they loved their masters,” Toungate argued, offering the fact as proof that “slavery could not have caused the war.”

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