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Damn Yankee said:
What does that have to do with the fact that the Brits were slavers and Southern Democrats?
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What you mean to say is that many Southerners are descended from the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish, not exactly front page news. Britain abolished slavery domestically in 1772, passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Slavery, or as near as dammit as makes no odds, was still being practised well into the 20th century in the Deep South by your fellow Americans.
 
tom prendergast said:
What you mean to say is that many Southerners are descended from the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish, not exactly front page news. Britain abolished slavery domestically in 1772, passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Slavery, or as near as dammit as makes no odds, was still being practised well into the 20th century in the Deep South by your fellow Americans.
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You should learn something about the history of The South. It was initially settled by the Brits, and they formed large plantations in the rich bottom lands, using African slaves for manual labor. Germans came much later, and had to settle in the Piedmont, where the soil was poorer, and very few of them could justify owning slaves. The Irish and Scots came much later, and were pushed out to the mountain counties. The wealthy Brits controlled the state governments. When the Civil War broke out most of the folks with German, Irish and Scottish ancestry didn't like slavery and many of these people resisted the war, fought on the Union side or became spies against the Confederacy.

Slavery was just one more example of Brits thinking that they are superior to other bloodlines.
 
Damn Yankee said:
You should learn something about the history of The South. It was initially settled by the Brits, and they formed large plantations in the rich bottom lands, using African slaves for manual labor. Germans came much later, and had to settle in the Piedmont, where the soil was poorer, and very few of them could justify owning slaves. The Irish and Scots came much later, and were pushed out to the mountain counties. The wealthy Brits controlled the state governments. When the Civil War broke out most of the folks with German, Irish and Scottish ancestry didn't like slavery and many of these people resisted the war, fought on the Union side or became spies against the Confederacy.

Slavery was just one more example of Brits thinking that they are superior to other bloodlines.
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You should learn something about Britain, if you say Brits then you mean English, Scots and Welsh. Anyway how long does somebody have to be in America before they become Americans? Were they Brits that implemented the whites only segregation policy that lasted till the mid 1960s?
 
tom prendergast said:
You should learn something about Britain, if you say Brits then you mean English, Scots and Welsh. Anyway how long does somebody have to be in America before they become Americans? Were they Brits that implemented the whites only segregation policy that lasted till the mid 1960s?
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Obviously I'm taking about Americans of English ancestry. There's no doubt that they handed down their illusions of superiority to suceeding generations.
 
tom prendergast said:
What you mean to say is that many Southerners are descended from the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish, not exactly front page news. Britain abolished slavery domestically in 1772, passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Slavery, or as near as dammit as makes no odds, was still being practised well into the 20th century in the Deep South by your fellow conservative Americans.
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Fixed that for you Tom.
 
The Americans winning the revolutionary war was the greatest tragedy of the modern age. We've shat away our freedom defending conservatives who all should've been executed as we danced in their blood, joyously celebrating their just and wonderful deaths.
 
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