re: #187 cgn38navy

The truth is: The North has been distorting the war for the last hundred years. The winners write the books, right? In order to justify the raping, pillaging, violations of property rights, carpetbagging, that took place in the 40 years following the war, they demon-ized the average southern white citizen. F_U Neil Young! Anyone, especially the so called intelligentsia that post on this blog should be aware there was a whole lot more to the war than slavery, and the complex and highly debated issues that led to the secessions.

Neil Young was spot on in his “Southern Man” criticism of white response to civil rights in the 60s south.

You can comfort yourself with “Sweet Home Alabama” all day long, but it changes neither the implicit racism of the Confederacy fetish, nor the fact that your “understanding” of the Civil War is rightly endangered.