MLK Day

[studyhard]

what exactly does the south is gonna rise up again mean?

Well, at one level it's tongue-in-cheek and just means, "If the South (meaning ME) was in charge, all the bozos I disagree with in Washington would be outta here and life would be great and we'd all drink sweet tea forevermore and never pay taxes again and, y'know, stuff." That's usually what I mean when I say it. hilarious

At another level, people say it, not because they believe the South is truly going to form its own nation again, but because they believe and hope in the governmental principles that the Confederacy fought for--states rights and limited government.

Apropros of not much:
Census data: Only 27% of Southernors owned slaves, and most of those owned only one slave.
The Emancipation Proclamation frees no slaves (read it if you haven't)
There were black soldiers in the Confederate army
Lincoln's own state would not allow a black man to stay 24 hours in the state
The supposedly abolitionist North "freed" their slaves by, uh, selling them to the South

I'm certainly NOT pro-slavery. But my view is that since slavery was an issue with only a minority (just over 1/4) of Southerners and Northerners had plenty of slave guilt, racism and prejudice on their hands as well (did you know some Northerners were funding slave trading in Africa well into the 1950s--yes, NINETEEN fifties?), I can call myself a Southern sympathizer because I believe in the principle of limited government that the Confederacy fought for.