I was in line for coffee this afternoon and overheard someone, in all seriousness, declare that the Civil War was caused by taxation without representation. And that any Moran would know it wasn’t about slavery. Nope. Not even a little. You know that head twist your dog makes when you say something to it that is completely incomprehensible and weird and sounds totally bizarre? That’s what I did. I started talking to my friend something about representation in the House, Senate, and WH in the years leading up to the Cvil War, the declarations of secession for several of the states, all of which suggested that probably that wasn’t really the issue. Blah, blah, blah, the various documents that survive from the time as each of the Confederate states seceded make it VERY clear why they were doing so, and first and foremost among the reasons was the survival of the “peculiar institution”. Right? Like why is this even a question? Unless…You guys! Do you think maybe people aren’t really reading those things and haven’t really bothered to find out much about the actual history instead of the fictionalized Gone With the Wind crap? That couldn’t be it, could it?
Not hate, just subjugation. Yup. The hate only started when they had to be called ‘people.’
Somebody pass the heroin, hillbilly or otherwise.