No, but he’d be marching in gray anyway – as one Cornfed far to poor to be a slave owner said (IIRC from The Civil War), "'Cause y’all are down here!"
Well, we regard that as a damn good reason. 
Arkansas only voted to leave the union after the feds asked for a draft of three hundred men to go and kill their friends and neighbors from Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
And one of our legislators refused to vote for it.
Birth of a Nation reflected the views of a majority or at least a substantial plurality of the American public when it came out. It would have been suicidal for Hollywood to make an anti-Klan film then.
Would it? There was no Klan in 1915. BOAN is believed to have inspired the founding of the second Klan that year.
But they were okay with being drafted to kill their friends and neighbours from Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania?
Well, in his defense South Carolina in IIRC the 1830s almost seceded over tariffs.
That said, there’s a reason the Southerners referred to “the Black Republicans” not “the Tariff Republicans”.
About half of them were.
The First Arkansas Cavalry, C.S.A., met the First Arkansas Cavalry, U.S.A. in combat in Fayettevile, Arkansas in 1862, I believe. That city is where I earned my Master’s Degree from the Graduate Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, although GIT was in Little Rock. Should I return to Fayettevile, I intend to see the brick with my name on a sidewalk for the graduating class, and the street corners where Arkansans killed each other.
Folks from Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania might possibly have been friends, but I they were not their neighbors. =)
Lighten up, it’s been 150 years.
I’ll lighten up when they lighten up. Oh, wait–their great-great-grandpappies were still treasonous dogs. Guess I can’t lighten up.
Just FYI - in three states, it was by referendum.
Nice reference.
(The exact quote is “Forget it, he’s rolling.” Just to be extra pedantic).
Ignorance fought! =)
Which three? One was South Carolina, I’ll warrant.
Johnny, tell the nice slave owners what they’ve won!
Why… its their choice of either the Luxurious F-250 or the Ever-Stylish Silverado…! AND with 2 dozen designer ball-caps by WTF. “If you’re wearing a ball-cap and there’s no team logo on the top, WTF!” Plus, their very own copy of "Civil War: The Home Version…
Somewhere the Zombie Herman Cain just moved his head from side to side and line-danced to ‘Thriller’.
Wait… Michael Steele and Condi Rice just joined him…!
To be fair, this was years before the NFL and the pay was a lot lower back then.
Also, lets be mindful of that less-famous quote from The Civil War:
saw saw saw **Aaaaargh…! My Fucking Leg! NOOOOOOO…! ** saw saw saw
=)
That was in Gone With The Wind.
Hey, I know I tease a lot… and if I hurt feelings, I’m sorry. I put that one last if only as a reminder of the Hellish consequences of that war. Some memories from a trip to Gettysburgh:
kid next to me- “Why is the tree-line by the road where Picket camped so lush, yet so straight?”
Tour Guide- “Well, actually before the battle all the trees extended right up to that hill up there… and it was all like that. That line is the artillery range limit of the Union cannon and every tree before it was obliterated by cannon fire.” :eek:
(Think “shoot out the star”. For half of an entire forest.)
Me- “So tell me… why does this room have fist-sized holes in all four corners?”
Guide- “All the buildings that were used as hospitals at the time have them. They were drilled intentionally. It was the only way to drain the blood from the floor fast enough… and reports were that even with them, the blood was Still ankle-deep.”
I’ll but trees cut down by cannon fire and musketry (!) but that’s a lot of wounded guys in not much space.
That pretty much precisely sums up the Battle of Gettysburg. 50,000 casualties in three days, mostly concentrated in fewer than 100 acres.
No, but there were obviously strong pro-Klan sentiments.
Like the Confederates, you lose.
It was Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee. At least according to the usual, somewhat reliable source.
I am surprised. The first to go just called up the state legislature and everyone woke up Confederate the next day.
Wow.
No, no, no. Lincoln was a great man and a Republican. The Republicans wanted to free the slaves and those nasty Democrats wanted to keep the institution. In fact, Frederick Douglass was a Republican, too. Why more blacks don’t vote Republican is beyond me.
I’m being sarcastic, of course.