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I'm going to take this one even though a few people have already commented on it; I'll try not to make my post too redundant.

No one is jumping on you because you like the south. You're proud of where you come from, there's nothing wrong with that. But what IS wrong is the way you refuse to acknowledge the horror that slavery was. Not being apolagetic for it is one thing, but refusing to even acknowledge it is entirely different. In my humble opinion, yes, you ARE ignorant and backwards in your views on this issue. Tough words, but so is saying that slavery was merely an economic neccesity or a social class system.

Yes the south gets a bad wrap for it, and I believe that the main reason for this is that racism is to this day a more prominent issue in the southern states than it is in other areas of the US. The reason that the south continually gets a "bad wrap" for slavery is that there are still people there, like you apparently, who don't seem to understand why a widespread subjugation and trafficking of a single race is such a black mark in history.

This is not to say that the US is alone in this issue. Obviously there are MANY other civilizations and nations that have had similar histories, but as the topic of conversation is pre-war south, and it was you who first initiated it, this is the one that's up for debate.

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lucifer_sam

I can honestly say that it's just as bad where I live, in the middle of the Rust Belt. No, the racism isn't outspoken; there are rarely instances of derogatory epithets fired over racial borders. But in and around a fairly large metropolis, there is a phenomenal disparity in the demographic representation of whites and minorities. And no one seems to care.

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savannah

look,...i conceded that its wrong,....and even that it was ahorrible period in our history,......but it happened,....i didnt do it,.....lets move on

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