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• Elbert Guillory Gets Right With Lincoln and the Republican Party (14)
  • James Harrigan { What is fact today, very well may be different tomorrow. Not so, Bummer. What people believe to be facts may change, but facts themselves are... } – Jun 19, 7:29 AM
  • Bummer { The "old guy" visits every morning, to learn from informed historians facts and insights regarding the Civil War. An African-American switching parties and his reasons,... } – Jun 19, 6:59 AM
  • Pat Young { From the NY Times discussion of a 1991 Robert Dalleck bio: "His racial attitudes were mixed up beyond any possibility of our untangling them cleanly... } – Jun 19, 6:52 AM
  • M.D. Blough { Pat-Definitely, in addition, white Southerners certainly recognized what was happening in the Democratic Party as early as 1948 with the formation of the Dixiecrat Party. } – Jun 19, 6:15 AM
  • James Harrigan { Pat, count me among those many people unfamiliar with intra-Democratic Party struggles during the 20th century. I'm much stronger on 19th century US history than... } – Jun 19, 6:00 AM
  • Lyle Smith { Lyndon Baines Johnson is on record as having called blacks Niggers. Maybe that's why Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory didn't bring him up. History, it... } – Jun 19, 5:50 AM
  • Andy Hall { Margaret, I understand the history, and the Republican party's long record on Civil Rights, right up until Barry Goldwater in 1964. It's just sorts of... } – Jun 19, 5:45 AM
  • Pat Young { James, many people are also unfamiliar with the real struggle within the Democratic Party to wrest control of many congressional committee chairmanships and national party... } – Jun 19, 5:20 AM
• "No Hired Hessians or Negroes in the Southern Army" (22)
  • Bryan Cheeseboro { "He is remembering a war of white citizen soldiers defending their homes and a new nation from radical abolitionists and their immigrant and black hirelings."... } – Jun 19, 6:13 AM
  • Stuart W. Sanders { Two early Federal victories in the Western Theater that included German-American Union troops led to the "Hessian" charge appearing in Southern newspapers quite early in... } – Jun 19, 5:52 AM
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