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Kind of amazing this is still a state -sanctioned holiday in South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky.
Hell, they are still flying the CSA flag down at the SC state house. They did finally move it from the top of the dome in 2000.
The CSA was formed, of course, to overthrow the United States of America. It's hard to reconcile this being flown in a modern state capital.
Hell, they are still flying the CSA flag down at the SC state house. They did finally move it from the top of the dome in 2000.
The CSA was formed, of course, to overthrow the United States of America. It's hard to reconcile this being flown in a modern state capital.
What kind of history books did your school have?
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But no one was executed for treason, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis was not even tried for the crime.
The north was not effected like the south,not even close. And the north had more slaves.
I can go a few miles from here to a place called Bulls Gap, Archie Campbell's hometown. And see where these huge embankment were shoveled up to hide cannon for defending that gap. The RR ended at bulls gap and supplies were waggoned thru to the RR at south of greeneville. That stretch didn't get built for a while,it is the steepest on the clinchfield line for a one mile stretch.
I can hear the engines pulling up that grade at night.
I'm just glad it's not currently flying over the Capitol in Washington DC, but apparently there are still people that wish it did.
When the South fired on Fort Sumpter it launched the conflict that killed more than a million Americans all said and done and led to immeasurable human suffering on the same dirt I walk today. I view that as a bad thing, even with ancestors that fought for the South a few generations back.
But we live in a country that is still has a national politicians saying the Earth was created 3,000 years ago. I view this as an unenlightened perspective, but that's just me.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie
Origin of the name
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origins of this nickname remain obscure. According to A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951), by Mitford M. Mathews, three theories most commonly attempt to explain the term:
1. The word "Dixie" refers to privately issued currency originally from the Citizens State Bank (located in the French Quarter of New Orleans) and then other banks in Louisiana.[4] These banks issued ten-dollar notes,[5] labeled "Dix", French for "ten", on the reverse side. The notes were known as "Dixies" by English-speaking southerners, and the area around New Orleans and the French-speaking parts of Louisiana came to be known as "Dixieland". Eventually, usage of the term broadened to refer to the Southern states in general.
2. The word preserves the name of a "Mr. Dixy", a slave owner on Manhattan Island, where slavery was legal until 1827 (see History of slavery in New York). His rule was so kind that "Dixy's Land" became famed far and wide as an elysium abounding in material comforts.
3. "Dixie" derives from Jeremiah Dixon, a surveyor of the Mason-Dixon line which defined the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and, for the most part, free and slave states. (Delaware, a Union border state, and slave state up to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, lay north and east of the survey line.)
Slavery and free labor were central to the tariff issue, but hundreds of thousands of Americans didn't slaughter each other over a tariff dispute.
Just my sole opinion, yours will likely differ.
Is the kkk fans of it? You'll be hard pressed to find an old picture of the kkk with that flag flying. The new kkk, the idiots that believe in nothing has exploited it, but they've taken up the swastika too and they don't stand for anything.
South Carolina December 20, 1860. percentage of families that owned slaves: 46%
Mississippi January 9, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves: 49%
Florida January 10, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves 34%
Alabama January 11, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves; 35%
Georgia January 19, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves; 37%
Louisiana January 26, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves 29%
Texas February 1, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves: 28%
Virginia April 17, 1861 percentage of families that owned slaves: 26%
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html
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