If You Think the Civil War Ever Ended, Think Again
By Adele Stan | Friday, April 9, 2010 | AlterNet.org
“…That throughout a significant swath of the nation, men who committed treason for the sake of maintaining chattel slavery are lauded as heroes speaks to a terrible illness in the American psyche — one that continues to fester 145 years after the last shot was fired in the War Between the States….”…BS
http://www.alternet.org/news/146366/if_you_think_the_civil_war_ever_ended,_think_again
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The Texas Board of Education re-writes history to favor (Southern) conservative thought; a North Carolina congressman proposes to replace Ulysses Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill; the governor of Virginia declares a Confederate History Month; and at least two governors (of Southern States) flirt with secessionist rhetoric.
The “sore losers” of the Civil War are coming out of the woodwork. This would be absolutely hysterical if it didn’t have such serious potential ramifications…
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