| sapphi_snake said: @mrstickbal: No connections to slave owners...Given the distance we have from the civil war, few people really have the desire to look into seeing if they had family that owned slaves and the like. The only people that really care about that type of thing are the instigators like Al Sharpton, et all that make it a public issue on TV. Its kind of like trying to be angry at any average German for Nazism... You really can't hold that against the great grandchildren for something they despise and have nothing to do with. It's not about pointing fingers, it's just an interesting fact. As for the Democrat-Republican issue in the South, that is a very interesting one. Democrats were the ones that heavily backed slavery in the South. Republicans were the ones that were vehimently against it. After the Civil War, every freed slave voted Republican, which gave them a super majority in the South for a few decades. After time, though, more white Democrats came into power, and enacted racist laws that prevented blacks from voting, called Jim Crowe laws. Eventually, this turned the South into a Democratic power base for approximately 70 years. After time, both parties changed in general stances, which slowly led to Republicans becoming more favored in the South, due to their conservative nature. Aha, interesting. I knew about the underlined part from Gone with the Wind. So the parties just changed ideologies, and the people moved to the party with which they agreed with. |
Oh, and about the slave ownership thing - I wasn't trying to assume you were pointing fingers, I was just trying to describe the reasons behind why people may have an interest in it today. Generally, few people care about genealogies one way or another.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
