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When my family and the majority of Southerners opted for secession it was to get away from the Yankees, not dominate them. We no longer wanted to be a part of nation that included them. Had it not been for their desire to force us to stay in the Union we would have gone our own way peacefully. After independence and before the dawn of the 20th century with the help and encouragement of Great Britain slavery would have ended (see Brazil's emancipation history). Who knows, in a South not scarred and embittered by a destructive war, race relations may have been amicable and harmonious -- sadly just another "what if?"

It is obvious Kevin Wilmott, of the faux documentary Confederate States of America, is not only a historical illiterate, but a cultural snob and moron. He projects onto Southerners and conservatives the intolerance, racism and hate that permeates the politically correct left. It was Louisiana and later the Confederacy that used the abundant talents of Judah P. Benjamin (a Jew) as a Senator and cabinet member not New York or Massachusetts. Had the Confederacy won its independence one could even see the potential for a Judah P. Benjamin presidency. Imagine the first Jewish president in North America would have been in a 19th century Confederacy.

It was Franklin D. Roosevelt, a New Yorker, who turned away shiploads of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. It was the same Roosevelt and his administration that refused to bomb the Nazi death camps where six millions Jews were slaughtered. And it was FDR who formally recognized the brutal Soviet Union and affectionately called its mass murdering anti-Semite leader "Uncle Joe."

During the Cold War it was Bible thumping Rednecks of the South who were stalwart pillars in America's war against the evils of Marxist-Leninism (an ideology that has murdered more innocent humans than any in the world's history). It is Southerners, in disproportionately high percentages, who man the front ranks in the war against Islamofascism while Wilmott and his kind do all they can to stab them in the back and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Kevin Wilmott's faux documentary is more a reflection of his twisted and hate filled ideology than it is about the Confederacy or conservatism. You know if the blue state liberals and their adherents in the red states wanted to secede I believe there would be a lot of folks saying to the "lower Canadians" and terrorist sympathizers, "Adios and y'all don't come back now -- you hear."

God bless America! God bless the South!

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