Swaggering morons who boast “The South will rise again” would do well to familiarize themselves with how well it went for The South the last time they decided to rise. Here’s a hint: that fourteen-year period called Reconstruction was called that for a reason.
The Civil War ended in 1865 and there are STILL parts of the South that have never financially recovered. The war devastated the South. It was awful there. And yet there are people from the very areas hit hardest who would, out of ignorant, arrogant, prideful stupidity, subject themselves and their loved ones to that again. For nothing. For the illusion of independence and their own warped, cartoonish idea of “how it used to be.” Well, it used to suck. Badly. It used to be so fucking terrible that the North started rebuilding the South in 1863, TWO FUCKING YEARS BEFORE THE WAR ENDED. So many Southerners were starving and destitute that the North was fighting in parts of the South and supplying food, shelter and medicine in other parts to the very people trying to kill them. That’s how bad off it was for the South. It blew. People seem to somehow forget that.
So the next time you’re feeling like a big bad ass because you’re flying your Confederate flag and displaying those precious little bumper stickers on your pickup, ask yourself, do you really want to do that again? Because it didn’t work out so well for you the last time.
