re: #50 ggt

So, the Civil War isn’t over. It isn’t about slavery, it’s about the 14th Amendment?

I’m not terribly happy about the loss of states rights to the federal government, but the facts have proven it necessary time and time again. Education being the first I that comes to mind. When the states were in total control, education was far from equal. I’m not saying the state of education is perfect, but there aren’t the horrid discrepancies between ‘black’ schools and ‘white’ schools.

Everyone that want’s to can now vote—no more grandfather clauses -etc.

As my mother has reminded me at times, in some parts of the South, the war has never ended. Some of the towns Sherman burned hate Federal authority to this day, because in their minds they were ruined by that authority, though I maintain that they were ruined by their embrace of a utterly unjust institution.