A Little Confederate in the Making

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• Elbert Guillory Gets Right With Lincoln and the Republican Party (4)
  • James Harrigan { minor point, Kevin: there is no such thing as the "Democrat Party". The correct usage is "Democratic Party". Of course, both the Republican Party and... } – Jun 19, 4:54 AM
  • M.D. Blough { Andy-I'm assuming that MLK started out life as a Republican, if he was registered as anything (or, if he even could be registered. That was... } – Jun 19, 4:43 AM
  • Brad { The Republican Party had ceased to be a progressive party in the late 1800s, Teddy Roosevelt being a blip in their conservative creep. A major... } – Jun 19, 4:35 AM
  • Andy Hall { It's a fairly common talking point on the right to claim that that MLK was a Republican. King has faded sufficiently into the mists (and... } – Jun 19, 4:08 AM
  • Pat Young { My dad was a Republican who brought me up to think of his party as the Party of Lincoln. In 1968 Nixon worked effectively to... } – Jun 19, 3:09 AM
• "No Hired Hessians or Negroes in the Southern Army" (18)
  • Pat Young { Interestingly, when German Union troops were stationed in the South they would often seek out local Germans on the assumption that German solidarity would transcend... } – Jun 19, 2:52 AM
  • Pat Young { By calling German American soldiers "Hessians" Confederate propagandists were claiming that they were mercenaries. They were also implying that they were not really Americans, only... } – Jun 19, 2:40 AM
  • London John { Confederate propaganda greatly exagerrated the importance of immigrants in the Union army, while also claiming that American-born Union soldiers had had unmanly or menial peace-time... } – Jun 19, 12:36 AM
  • Craig L. { There could also be residual hostility in the southern narrative to immigrants, particularly Germans, whose presence in southern states represented a fifth column in support... } – Jun 18, 8:08 PM
  • Pat Young { It must have been odd if you were one of the few immigrants fighting for the Confederacy to hear your fellow immigrants disparaged so blatantly... } – Jun 18, 6:37 PM
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