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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHmmmmm...This is interesting "It's beginning to feel like the Confederacy
was never actually defeated. It just became Rebranded under a new name and richer over the last 100 years💭💭💭"
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SCantiGOP
(14,608 posts)It just took 100 years.
By the 1960's the Democrats were in power, and their dominance would not have been possible without the 'Solid South,' and a majority of House and Senate committees were led by Southerners.
The way the South 'won' was by using the Seniority system that existed in the Senate. They kept returning the same old segregationists, and before long they were in position to dominate the committees, which was where most of the real work was done.
On the House side, you had Mendall Rivers who served in the House for 30 years, the last 3 terms as head of the Armed Services Committee. By the time he died in office, there were so many military facilities in SC (Charleston had an Air Force base, a submarine base and a major naval yard for ship maintenance, while the largest Army and Marine training bases were also in SC) that the joke was that if SC seceded from the US again, it would be a military standoff.
Irish_Dem
(76,190 posts)The South has now won the US Civil War.
They never really surrendered, they never gave up.
SCantiGOP
(14,608 posts)Live up North.
Irish_Dem
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Across the globe they wage war with no boundary, loyalties or values.
It will not be geography, but philosophy.
The only goals are total and permanent power and control.
And access to all financial resources.
GOP, Russia, China, Iran, Saudi.