150 Years Ago Yesterday

[Rhyfelwyr]

I don't know whether or not they did tbh Gaelic (all I know is that a lot of Ulster Scots settled the southern Appalachians), I think our love for the Confederacy is probably as much due to ideological connections as anything. Because we're proud to be WASP's.

[gaelic cowboy]

I don't know whether or not they did tbh Gaelic (all I know is that a lot of Ulster Scots settled the southern Appalachians), I think our love for the Confederacy is probably as much due to ideological connections as anything. Because we're proud to be WASP's.

West Virginia is around purely cos they would not break with the Union and Ohio would have had a lot of them too If had to lay money down I say they were in the main on the side of the Union

[Subotan]

As would Kentucky, which sided with the Union.

[gaelic cowboy]

I recently watched a 2 part documentary on the Irish Brigade on telly and to be honest I dunno how anyone stayed with the units after the first engagement in either side of the civil war.

[Rhyfelwyr]

West Virginia is around purely cos they would not break with the Union and Ohio would have had a lot of them too If had to lay money down I say they were in the main on the side of the Union

The thing is all the particular details of history tend to get swept up into the bigger picture. For various reasons loyalism is now heavily intertwined with the far-right and so they emphasise the links with the Confederacy over the Union forces. There is some truth in it, the term redneck comes from the red scarves worn by the Covenanters. Heck, the KKK was modelled off the Orange Order. So it shouldn't be surprising to see this...

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I don't really like how its been hijacked by these neo-Nazi idiots. I mean, I'm right-wing, maybe far-right. But why celebrate an evil regime that our grandfathers fought to destroy? And by all means, celebrate the good things the Confederacy stood for and southern culture against northern imperialism, but slavery was an abomination. And being proud of your own race/ancestry and culture is fine, but there's no need to hate on others (well you can hate on bad cultures, but not the people).

Please excuse my mini-rant...

BACK TO TOPIC: Just to point out, the Confederates were 100% loyal to the Constitution so I have to disagree with Strike when he calls their rebellion illegal.

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BACK TO TOPIC: Just to point out, the Confederates were 100% loyal to the Constitution so I have to disagree with Strike when he calls their rebellion illegal.

They were loyal to their interpretation of the Constitution.