When money is concerned, nuthin' is easy...

I kinda see where the "Union", as in the United Sates Governemnt would have had to step in with subsudies to farmers in the South, yes, even if "the South" was the CSA... Kinda like foriegn aid to a country that we don't agree with... There's no shortage of precidence here....

But as for "slaves today"??? Yes, it is very much a stretch for most people unless one has spent time in the Delta of Mississippi... No, not in the big towns like Clarksdale but in the rural areas...

I would love for "60 Minutes" to go there... People would first be amazed and then...

...ashamed....

Don't believe me... Go over to Tweedsblues.net and check out the "Como Chronicles" about me and Tweed going back into these areas... There's even a piccure of me playin' music on a porch way back in the country with no running water or electricity...

When white folks with computers in front of them even try to get there it's probably just about impossible to get there from their comforts... I have been there... The life for many folks haven't changed much since before the War Between the States...

This is the real deal... Go to Tweeds and see for yourself if you think I'm blowin' some kinda bull here... I have been there... Tween has been there... We have seen it... And this is some 50 years after the supposed death of Jim Crow...

Jim Crow was an angry reaction to the results of the War Between the States... It didn't have to happen that way... Black folks took the brunt of angry white Soiutherners... This ain't even debatable... Ji Crow was as bad as slavery and if you were a black person strung up because soemone ***said*** you ***looked*** at a white woman then it was worse as worse can be...

Yeha, Ron, you can rague that their is no evidence that slavery was on the way out but, hey, how about ***you*** provin' it wasn't???

See, you are fallin' back on the same ol' "Dickey:prove-it"...

Shame on you... You are are a better debater...

LH and I have offerd an alternative course of history here... Can you show us where we are wrong???

I mean no disrespect here but it's time to either back away or "prove" that the War Between the States" was the only way that slavery was goin' to end...

In a way, this thread has become kinda a microcosm of what might have beeen occuring in 1860??? I won't do any testimonials about how I undertand Southern thinking tho I have lived most of my life in the South but I do have some perspective here...

Bobert