Did you know that Massachusetts, yes that Massachusetts!, the home of the liberal, the home of the abolitionist, the home of the conscience of the world . Massachusetts was the very first colony to make slavery legal! Remember, they were in the slavery business. These Blue Blood Yankees still sit in their exclusive Country Clubs and tell us how we must be an inclusive society, but just stay out of their backyard. While Georgia, that bastion of slavery and all the evils associated with it, was the very last colony to legalize slavery.

I find it a terrible irony that if the story I have just tried to convey were about any other nation on earth, no matter how vague or questionable their claims to nationhood, the U. S. would be in the forefront to demand the recognition of the ethnic rights of these newly built nations. While with their other face they have been guilty of systematic persecution of the occupied Southern culture. Of cultural genocide.

I will say that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about, in any way, a social and political equality of the White and Black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor intermarry with White people. There is a physical difference between the White and Black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together in terms of social and political equality. And in so much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race. A. Lincoln (1858)

The backward, old fashioned, lowbrow South was the first with intergrated military, not only did blacks serve but it also had the first female commisioned officer. It was the first to have Jews in the cabinet level offices of government(Secretary of State)as well as Catholics. Now, Who were the racist bigots? Due to the eclectic nature of the South, where people were judged on merit more than ethnicity. One could possibly say this was a war between the defenders of human rights and the proponents of the industrial revolution and the humans lost.