Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
As I said, you are suffering from a confusion - that the "facts" matter in the slightest.

As a non-Southerner your opinion is irrelevent and your protestations merely reinforce the divide.
My apologies, I will be more direct in explaining.

I am not confused in the slightest. I am protesting nothing. I understand what you are saying.

Let's try this another way. Most of the US has long, long, long since moved on since that era. It's well in the past, and aside from a few points here and there in history classes and some Civil War re-enactors, we generally do not care. The southerners who cling to that sense of victimhood and foster the grudge are the ones who create this divide you mention. You are certainly correct, my opinion is irrelevant. Whether or not southerners continue to hold this course is entirely up to them, the ball is in their court. It does become an issue when the old traditions of racism come into play, and legislation has to be enacted to force them to be civilized towards fellow man. To be fair (to an extent), this also holds true for the rest of the US. It sometimes becomes an issue when southern revisionists attempt to re-word history to depict the north as the aggressors and demonize them, which the rest of us will not stand for. Nursing a grudge is one thing, that would be their own prerogative. Actively attempting to reinstate in any shape or form the old southern segregationist and racist institutions, or re-write or gloss over history is not something the rest of us will tolerate.