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the Weird Liberal

(124 posts) Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:09 PM Nov 2012

Liberal/Democratic Victory= Southern Secession/Civil War?

These people are nuts, bonkers, and just plain stupid.
Here's the Louisiana petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-louisiana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/1wrvtngl
Red/Blue states tax dollars- http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/10/25/blue_state_red_face_guess_who_benefits_more_from_your_taxes.html

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Liberal/Democratic Victory= Southern Secession/Civil War? (Original Post) the Weird Liberal Nov 2012 OP

I wonder if the South just never got over Blue4Texas Nov 2012 #1

Stop wondering Actionman Nov 2012 #2

You're right and I was wondering Blue4Texas Nov 2012 #5

Why not? zbdent Nov 2012 #3

What to know just HOW out of their minds? HockeyMom Nov 2012 #4

The wording of the petition shows the intelligence level of the TeaThugs that wrote it. AAO Nov 2012 #6

I became friends Stellarblue Nov 2012 #7

Idiots call it that. JoeyT Nov 2012 #8

Almost every secessionist state issued a 'causes for secession' article at the legislature level. AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #10

Yeah, they try to hide it behind a towering wall of bullshit. JoeyT Nov 2012 #11

In the history books I read, the South fired first. AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #9

What many forget... GTurck Nov 2012 #12

I am tired of the goofy on both sides. Meh. marble falls Nov 2012 #13

Blue4Texas

(437 posts)

1. I wonder if the South just never got over

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:15 PM

Nov 2012

The loss in the Civil War?

Actionman

(115 posts)

2. Stop wondering

Reply to Blue4Texas (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:23 PM

Nov 2012

They not only are not over it, they are still trying to win it... Rewriting history in books intended for education. So stop your wondering, if you really were.

Blue4Texas

(437 posts)

5. You're right and I was wondering

Reply to Actionman (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:46 PM

Nov 2012

I had not considered that; I know, how could I miss that!

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

3. Why not?

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:24 PM

Nov 2012

Freeze their assets ... let them TRY to get cash.

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

4. What to know just HOW out of their minds?

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:42 PM

Nov 2012

Some delusional Freeper posted a list of states advocating secession which included NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY. Oh, yeah, they turned RED because of Hurricane Sandy??????? Duh, the Election was AFTER Sandy, and the vote was for Romney?????? That one is certifiable insane.

AAO

(3,300 posts)

6. The wording of the petition shows the intelligence level of the TeaThugs that wrote it.

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:47 PM

Nov 2012

"alter or abolish" - not secede from.

Stellarblue

(2 posts)

7. I became friends

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 08:23 PM

Nov 2012

with this girl from the south that moved up north where I live. (She's not a crazy republican, voted for Obama) But she had told me that in the south where she was from they didn't call it the civil war. They call it the War of Northern Aggression

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)

8. Idiots call it that.

Reply to Stellarblue (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 08:32 PM

Nov 2012

The rest of us call it by its real name. If you ask someone about it, you've got about a fifty fifty chance of hearing either one.

The people that call it that are the same ones that are hell bent to convince people that the civil war was about absolutely anything and everything but slavery.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

10. Almost every secessionist state issued a 'causes for secession' article at the legislature level.

Reply to JoeyT (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:19 AM

Nov 2012

If memory serves, every last one boiled down to 'the north is taking away slavery'.

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)

11. Yeah, they try to hide it behind a towering wall of bullshit.

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #10)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:53 AM

Nov 2012

"Secession was about state's rights!" kind of stuff. Which is true, in the absolute broadest sense of the phrase. It was about the "right" of states to insist it was ok to own another human being.

But yeah, the ones that aren't absolute fabrications boil down to not wanting to give up slavery.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

9. In the history books I read, the South fired first.

Reply to Stellarblue (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:18 AM

Nov 2012

GTurck

(826 posts)

12. What many forget...

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:51 AM

Nov 2012

is that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Northerners live in Southern states now. We moved south for many reasons we have not become Southerners but have remained Americans first. There is no way that their very retro idea will get any traction.
Here in Texas the state receives a great part of its revenue from AMERICAN taxpayers through the many military and NASA related installations. We are talking billions of dollars and GOP greed would not let them lose that money.
They probably took LSD and are having flashbacks.

marble falls

(57,126 posts)

13. I am tired of the goofy on both sides. Meh.

Reply to the Weird Liberal (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 12:22 PM

Nov 2012

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