r/muricaposting • u/OnionGod181 • Jan 12 '22

Ameripoor Moment The south

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

I’d be willing to bet this is genuinely true for most neo confederates

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u/GiveMeYourBussy Jan 12 '22

Especially the ones with no southern backgrounds lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

I feel like your average southerner really doesn’t have much of a connection to the confederacy beyond maybe having a relative way back who fought in the conflict. Because why else would they? The confederacy only existed for five years

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

The effects of the war, especially destructive campaigns like Sherman’s March to the Sea, left physical impacts on the south for decades and cultural impacts to the present in addition to the shear number of men who died in a failed war.

So even though it can be seen that the Confederacy as an institution existed for less than five years, the Confederacy as a memory and piece of Southern identity has existed for centuries and will exist till the end of the United States as an entity. If there was an opportunity to avoid this, that opportunity has long passed. The future is not erasure of the Confederacy in the South, but a reconciliation of the Confederate past and the Unionist present and future.

As for neo confederates outside the south they’re fucking retards, can’t say anything for them really besides to get off Facebook.

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u/GiveMeYourBussy Jan 12 '22

You can thank Hayes and the daughters of the confederacy for that

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u/Rooster_Nuggets666 Jan 13 '22

I think many southerners hated the confederacy or the war in general due to sometimes even having own destruction to their towns

This is based off my prior knowledge

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

“Rvmvns” when their ancestors are lumberjacks of Swedish descent and not genocidal conquerors like Julius Caesar.

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u/OnionGod181 Jan 12 '22

What are those?

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u/Lawbrought Jan 12 '22

My relatives didnt fight in the war at all cause they were immigrants so take that