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re: Reddit wants to know why southerners don't feel guilty about the Civil War
Posted on 10/10/25 at 7:52 am to Woolfpack
Posted on 10/10/25 at 7:52 am to Woolfpack
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Southern pride is an interesting topic in itself. You don’t see that type of pride for a region anywhere else in the USA. Pride for a state or a city or town is common. New York and Texas come to mind. Pride in being an American is standard. Just a strong pride in a region is only found in the former confederate states.
It just means more.
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Posted on 10/10/25 at 7:53 am to Dex Morgan
Most of the responses in that thread were, "no, in fact, hell no."
It was very normal, especially for reddit.
It was very normal, especially for reddit.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:03 am to tigger1
Slavery was not exclusively in the south.
Slave owners are anything but exclusively white.
Few southerners owned slaves.
Years of unfair trade held the southern states down.
All states had a right to secede.
The damn Yankees refuse to relinquish their forts and accept the secession of southern states.
The south had the right to drive the Yankees out and take complete ownership of their land.
The damn Yankees, due to years of unfair practices, had an manufacturing advantage
The damn Yankees also had the advantage of a large influx of immigrants to send to war.
The abolition of slavery was largely a means to prevent the south from becoming a formidable power after the war ended.
Ok. That seems worthy of some research. Thanks.
Slave owners are anything but exclusively white.
Few southerners owned slaves.
Years of unfair trade held the southern states down.
All states had a right to secede.
The damn Yankees refuse to relinquish their forts and accept the secession of southern states.
The south had the right to drive the Yankees out and take complete ownership of their land.
The damn Yankees, due to years of unfair practices, had an manufacturing advantage
The damn Yankees also had the advantage of a large influx of immigrants to send to war.
The abolition of slavery was largely a means to prevent the south from becoming a formidable power after the war ended.
Ok. That seems worthy of some research. Thanks.
This post was edited on 10/10/25 at 8:15 am
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:18 am to Yaz 8
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The ideals of the founding fathers were found on the side fighting for state rights.
Eh, the founding fathers were pretty split between federalism and confederalism. Again, it was all argued in 1787, and never really settled until after the Civil War.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:23 am to Dex Morgan
Well the looting and the pillaging from the Union doesn't help
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:25 am to Dex Morgan
My father's family wasn't even here at the time and my mother's family was dirt poor. She would tell me about using a slop jar at night to relieve herself.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:46 am to Dex Morgan
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Reddit wants to know why southerners don't feel guilty about the Civil War
Well, for one, even though I’m a born and bred Southerner, my great great grandfather and his four brothers all fought for the Union.
He committed suicide in the 1880s. He checked into an inn one night, mixed a toxic concoction and drank it.
No one understood it at the time and for generations afterward because he was a successful, well liked man with a family. However, after examining his diaries and some letters, it’s almost positive that he suffered from PTSD.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:47 am to Dex Morgan
This is a total lie. Sure some people don't feel guilty for their part. But I for one ask forgiveness ever night for all the union soldiers I shot, maimed and killed.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:48 am to Dex Morgan
Black people in the south owned slaves, and actually caught and sold them in Africa...
These mentally ill people are selective in their arguments and basically retarded.
These mentally ill people are selective in their arguments and basically retarded.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:49 am to Dex Morgan
quote:I am not a Dem
Reddit wants to know why southerners don't feel guilty about the Civil War
Southern Dems were the Confederates
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:52 am to Vacherie Saint
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Reparations
No amount will ever be enough.
It’s unfair for descendants hundreds of years later to pay a the price for things they didn’t do.
Once the idea is implanted, that will be a permanent admission of guilt for everyone who follows.
No thank you.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:52 am to Tigahs24Seven
quote:The largest owner of slaves in South Carolina, was a black man who was a former slave
Black people in the south owned slaves
He is estimated to have owned 171 during his lifetime
Meet William Ellison Jr.
This post was edited on 10/10/25 at 8:53 am
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:55 am to Dex Morgan
Same people will then tell you it’s their right to kill their kid simply because of where it resides.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:07 am to Woolfpack
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guess it’s tough to be a proud people and have your history (the south) be inextricably connected to such evil.
Why is it the South’s history? Should the North get a pass? The New England textile industry get a pass? The North gets a pass on the treatment of the Irish? How about California and the treatment of the Chinese? African slave traders get a pass? How about the Dutch? Free black slave owners? You can’t call slavery the history of the South without acknowledging all the actors involved.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:15 am to Dex Morgan
It’s been over 150 years ago dbags.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:15 am to Dex Morgan
Only thing I feel guilty about is that my family didn’t have more members to help support Lee
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:24 am to biglego
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One of the comments in the Reddit thread said 1/3 of southerners had slaves. Which seemed like an impossible number.
They probably got to that number by taking the total white population at the time and comparing it to the total number of slaves at the time. Of course their “math” would have to assume that each slave owner only owned 1 slave.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:26 am to Dex Morgan
Why should we?
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:59 am to Old Character
True. Much of the rest of world too, as far as I know.
You guys need to get a better PR guy.
You guys need to get a better PR guy.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:04 pm to Strannix
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Slavery was going to end soon anyway.
The northern states started banning it what, ten years, fifteen years earlier? After thousands of years of global acceptance. That's not a lot of high ground.
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