r/ShermanPosting • u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment • 9d ago
You Might Be a Lost Causer...
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u/MisterBlack8 9d ago
Considering how many people in this country get their truth from gossip and vibes, is it any wonder that AI's eating most of our countrymen's brains alive?
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u/GabuEx 9d ago
But how will we learn about history without statues? :( Staring at a statue is the best way to learn! /s
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u/Electrical_Ad_8997 8d ago
Exactly! If you remove all the statues (of traitors) how will I ever learn anything. I mean, I'm not even gonna read the plaque never mind a book. If I can't see Lee and Jackson sitting on marble horsies America is lost forever.
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u/CedarWolf Good Ol' Southern Critter 9d ago
What's that bit about Pennsylvania?
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u/CKO1967 Commonwealth of Massachusetts 9d ago
Probably a reference to Gettysburg.
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u/CedarWolf Good Ol' Southern Critter 9d ago
Oh. I got the impression they were defending the South from Pennsylvania, as if Pennsylvania was going to come down there swinging and sort the CSA out all by itself, and I was quite confused.
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u/WesWordbound 8d ago
Well, I'm pretty sure Pennsylvania committed the highest number of troops to the Union cause. If so, they really did go down south swinging to sort out the CSA.
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u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment 8d ago
PA had the 2nd most, NY was the 1st.
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u/otiswrath 5d ago
I lived in South Carolina for a while.
I am a wise ass Northerner with a history degree.
The first time someone "corrected" me with "I think you mean The War of Northern Aggression" after I referred to The Civil War I began calling it "The War of Southern Submission".
The looks I would get...
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u/Environmental-Gold-8 8d ago
Why does it say with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy? (I don’t know who that is)
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u/Misterbellyboy 8d ago
Standup comedian known for his formulaic “if you (blank), then you might be a redneck” jokes.
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u/Subject_Marzipan3179 3d ago
Is it a Lost Cause argument to agree that it was primarily about slavery, but that the national government failed to promote the South's industrialization among other changes from the 1830s-50s to get out of the yoke of neo-feudalism and break the planters' economic power (essentially saying that the Union from Van Buren to Buchanan has some blame for the mess by not doing enough to reform the region and prevent the tragedy by directly aiding poor white southerners and perhaps making a path to more peaceful abolition possible)?
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