If you were Ron Paul, what would it take to get your endorsement?

[OptionsTrader]

If you were Ron Paul, what would it take to get your endorsement?

I'd endorse myself in a heart beat.

 

[familydog]

The reason they put restrictions on black immigration (and on the expansion of slavery to the territories) was because the labor of blacks was an "insult" to white workers, who they believed were superior workers and therefore should be the ones who worked, and that blacks shouldn't have jobs. That is also the reason why many free Northern blacks went South in the period before the war, because in the South there was always someone there to hire them and white people didn't care that they worked alongside blacks, while Northerners refused to work with blacks, believing them to be inferior. Also read de Toqueville On Democracy in America about his observations that racism was more noticeable in the North than in the South, and the GOP was originally the Northern sectional party.

Ah. Well, I'd have to disagree with Tocqueville about his observation then.

So I'm guessing all of this information is in Dilorenzo's book? If so, I'm going to have to take it with a grain of salt until I do some fact finding for myself.

 

[nate895]

Ah. Well, I'd have to disagree with Tocqueville about his observation then.

So I'm guessing all of this information is in Dilorenzo's book? If so, I'm going to have to take it with a grain of salt until I do some fact finding for myself.

No, not all of it. I'm getting it straight from de Toqueville for some of it, and the rest of the last paragraph is from A Constitutional History of Secession by John Remington Graham.

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

The south has been demonized for over 150 years. I am reading a book Reconstruction of the South. I recently watched a documentary about blacks who migrated to Chicago after the war...and how badly they were treated. Lets face it..southerners grew up with black folks and northerners did not. There are MANY lies that were put out about treatment of the slaves in the south...not that I think slavery was a good thing, but the slaves in the south were treated much better than the poor workers in the industrial north. I agree with Ron Paul...there was a much better way to end slavery, which both sides wanted contrary to popular belief, than killing a bunch of people, burning down the south which has never recovered economically and throwing the black people out in the streets with nowhere to go , no education etc. It was a BAD deal for everyone. TONES

 

[nate895]

The south has been demonized for over 150 years. I am reading a book Reconstruction of the South. I recently watched a documentary about blacks who migrated to Chicago after the war...and how badly they were treated. Lets face it..southerners grew up with black folks and northerners did not. There are MANY lies that were put out about treatment of the slaves in the south...not that I think slavery was a good thing, but the slaves in the south were treated much better than the poor workers in the industrial north. I agree with Ron Paul...there was a much better way to end slavery, which both sides wanted contrary to popular belief, than killing a bunch of people, burning down the south which has never recovered economically and throwing the black people out in the streets with nowhere to go , no education etc. It was a BAD deal for everyone. TONES

+1

This is actually the issue that initially got me interested in Ron Paul. I thought "Finally, a Presidential candidate who actually knows what he is talking about as far as the civil war goes.

 

[familydog]

The south has been demonized for over 150 years. I am reading a book Reconstruction of the South. I recently watched a documentary about blacks who migrated to Chicago after the war...and how badly they were treated. Lets face it..southerners grew up with black folks and northerners did not. There are MANY lies that were put out about treatment of the slaves in the south...not that I think slavery was a good thing, but the slaves in the south were treated much better than the poor workers in the industrial north. I agree with Ron Paul...there was a much better way to end slavery, which both sides wanted contrary to popular belief, than killing a bunch of people, burning down the south which has never recovered economically and throwing the black people out in the streets with nowhere to go , no education etc. It was a BAD deal for everyone. TONES

I think you've seen the film The Birth of a Nation and read the book The Clansman too many times.