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Meet Robert Stacy McCain, Neo-Confederate Wacko Extraordinaire

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akarra10/19/2009 8:10:41 pm PDT

re: #3 brookly red

wtf? I first thought the Lincoln/war crimes was parody… please tell me this isn’t for real.

You would not believe how many people I’ve encountered believe that stuff; in certain libertarian and states rights circles, there’s a line of “thought” slavery would have gone broke on its own and the South would peacefully have abandoned slavery if Lincoln had just, um, not been elected on an explicitly anti-slavery platform (ending slavery in territories means that in a short amount of time, free states would outnumber slave states and outlaw slavery by simple majority vote).