Why Does A Northeastern Yankee like Myself Hold Such A Strong Bond With The South?

DamnYankee said:
You're acting like the region is of a single mindset shows your complete and total ignorance of The South. There was a huge percentage of the population who either resisted secession, or flat-out fought against it. Those folks remained loyal to the Grand Old Party and gradually, as folks who supported the Confederacy found out the truth about what the Democrat Party did, they joined the GOP. Then in modern times folks like me who figured out that northern liberals were lying about The South came to be one with it's greatness, swelling the ranks of the GOP to a solid majority.
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Fucking hive minds wouldn't even vote for Ike! That said, LOLZ at the Irish in Massachusetts voting for Al Smith in 1928!
 
Also, note the drop in the level of IQ of the GOP as people like you have joined it, DS. Absolutely pathetic! Also, telling people how much the South sucks is not remotely close to be a lie...
 
I wouldn't willingly live anywhere other than Oklahoma ... Don't care. 2nd choice would be Texas, then Colorado. After that ther are several toss up states...Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee, Alabama... Most are in the south.
 
I Love America said:
To hear BAC and Poet talk, the Civil War issues are still relevant. Take it up with them. Of course maybe they have a special bond with the Civil War so it is only relevant with them and not anyone else.

A shame that hundreds of thousands died freeing BAC and Poets ancestors and they show little gratitude. Oh well.
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The thirteenth amendment freed BAC's and Poet's ancestors .. if Poets ancestors were slaves, not that war.
 
DamnYankee said:
Interesting theory, but it does nothing to support your contention that Scot-Irish fought for the Confederacy in large numbers.
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It's only common sense because the heaviest concentration of Scots Irish settled in the southern states. The Anglo Saxons and the Puritans settled heavily in the northern states. The celtic people were concentrated in the south.
 
philly rabbit said:
It's only common sense because the heaviest concentration of Scots Irish settled in the southern states. The Anglo Saxons and the Puritans settled heavily in the northern states. The celtic people were concentrated in the south.
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Actually that defies common sense as the Confederacy represented their former slavers.
 
Of course it does, since that site is to remind folks about our anti-slavery roots, not to start off with a fight about who owns the original brand. But the fact is that Jefferson and Madison called themselves Republicans, and which party today has more respect for the Constitution that they had such a huge hand in drafting?
 
DamnYankee said:
Of course it does, since that site is to remind folks about our anti-slavery roots, not to start off with a fight about who owns the original brand. But the fact is that Jefferson and Madison called themselves Republicans, and which party today has more respect for the Constitution that they had such a huge hand in drafting?
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I could give a rat's ass what anyone "called themselves" at some point in the distant past. The fact of the matter remains: the organization that "calls itself" the Republican Party today has only been in existence since the 1850's.
 
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