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(10,650 posts)And Gen. Stoneman a villain.
Apologia for the confederates. No Thanks. They deserved everything they got and more.
HFRN
(1,469 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)So if you're buying Dixie Cups, you're wrong.
HFRN
(1,469 posts)and you are correct, dixie is owned by georgia pacific, which is owned by Koch
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(1,469 posts)chapdrum
(930 posts)And always disliked the automatic reverence it received.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)That they all deserved it is an overly broad statement. People like Virgil Caine were poor farmers, not the plantation owners who made a mint off slave labor. Who do you think suffered the most during and after the war? Gerald O'Hara, the owner of Tara and the father of an insufferable spoiled brat named Scarlet, or Virgil Caine?
Virgil Caine fought in the war, but he no doubt believed all the lies he was told about the virtuous and holy institution of slavery, just as many dead war heroes in Arlington and other American military cemeteries believed the lies they were told about Vietnam and Iraq, not to mention the Mexican War.
Virgil Caine is a simple, common man. He had nothing to do with the justifications for slavery that he believed. He didn't ask for the aristocratic plantation owners to secede from the Union. They're the ones who started and drove the war, not Virgil Caine.
The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down is not about the wrong-headed reasons for joining the Confederate Army that Virgil Caine heard. It is an anti-war song, and in my judgment a very good one. "There goes Robert E. Lee" commandeering the fruit of Caine farm and Mrs. Caine's labor in order to feed his army. It is a song about how going to war is a decision of the upper classes and the lot falls on the Virgil Caines of the world to fight, die and suffer.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Why? It's perfect.