Now someone finally understands. The 'neoconfederates' have whined and cried
enough that we can now consider ourselves the winner. Great. 
When we get to overrun New York, Boston, Philadelphia and the other Yankee
bastions of economic oversight over all of us, then we will truly have won.
Personally, the freeing of the 'slaves' was a true necessity of the 'wah'.
Now all of us need to acknowledge we are members of the same country. No one
is black and no one is white. We are all Americans. 
The TOTALLY UNITED USA is the real savior of the 21st century. Both the
NORTH AND the SOUTH should look at each other as one, not separate entities.

I only wanted to acknowledge my cousins ending of the war and the
reunification of the country he loved as much as all of should and do love
it.
I believe that we can continue this discourse with the same passion and
zeal, the north will always be the real winner but we could have dreamed. I
don't believe the south really wanted to have Texas as its major state. 
At the end of the day, we are still citizens of the greatest country in the
world. Maybe the civil war was the true glue that binds us all together now.



John Philip Adams
Texas 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression

  I find Neoconfederate revisionism quite
  fascinating.  As a student of culture, it is always
  interesting to see a group's process
  of mythologizing their own history.  The Cult of the
  Lost Cause constructed an alternate reality for
  Southerners through a relentless campaign of
  propaganda designed to control the debate over the
  war.  By hollering the loudest and longest,
  Confederates and now their Neoconfederate offspring
  have in effect done something unusual:  they are a
  rare example of the losers writing the history.  But
  why all the fuss?  After all, the South has become
  the dominant region of the United States.  The South
  receives a disproportionate share of redistributed
  taxpayer dollars, the solid "red state" voting bloc
  of the South drives our politics, country music is a
  major national radio format, the Left Behind series
  is the largest selling fictional series ever
  written, and NASCAR is the largest spectator sport
  in the United States.  It took a while, but the
  South finally won.  Sure, you might have to write
  off Virginia north of the Rappahannock to new
  invading Yankee hordes, but all in all a pretty good
  consolation prize for a failed insurrection.  One
  would think the Neoconfederates would quit while
  they're ahead.

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Dr. David S. Hardin
Assistant Professor of Geography
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Longwood University
Farmville, Virginia 23909
Phone: (434) 395-2581
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"For as Geography without History
seemeth a carkasse without motion,
so History without Geography
wandreth as a Vagrant without a
certaine habitation."
John Smith, 1627