A Question for the Southerners

[orfejns]

No Yanks answer or vote, please! Thanks for your understanding.

[Srbuckey]

Well, I am a southerner and its great down here. And I voted for I do reconize my Goverment as my own. We should ALL be one country, and I wish the civil war didnt ever start in the 1st place.

[SouthernByGrace]

Any True Historian will only need to look at this for an hour or so to understand that, we Southerners do Live under the government of the US. And we do in fact think that government to be our own, if for no other reason, for the lack of our own active Confederate government, as we are actually STILL an occupied country.
The surrender of Lee at Appomattox did not end the war, Nor did it end the CSA. The Confederate States of America has NEVER been dissolved and still exists to this day, only it has an inactive gov't, and its Constitution states that, in the event the gov't becomes inactive, only three states are needed to reactivate it.

So, to answer the question before me, I would put it this way:

In the absence of an active government of the CSA, I do in fact recognize the gov't of the USA as my own. Albeit an illegal one.

P.S. Your poll should include a third option:

"I still live in occupied CSA but in the absence of an active gov't, I do recognize the US gov't as my own."

[Mike]

I live outside of the US, outside of the NORTH and SOUTH, but I don't have the declaration of independence. It feels similar to occupation in that it lacks the feel of originality that the changes that the civil war created. I might relate to Southerners that feel occupied because the North won.

[Zeeboe]

I'm from the South and I see it as apart of the Union.

[Zeeboe]

I have read the United States Constitution, and to be honest, I don't see how one can honestly read it, and not see that it does clearly establish a national government.

Texas never consented to Mexican rule. It was imposed upon them. The laws then were passed with one purpose - To keep Texas a subjugated state. Texas and the Southern states however freely joined, and submitted to the Union.

[intothefight]

I was raised southern and was always taught God, Family, and Country - the USA. My real problem with society today is how Southern dialect is mocked and southerners are stereotyped as being ignorant and stupid. I have seen it with some of my former colleagues from above the Mason-Dixon Line. It is an intolerance bred from the War and typified by Nast's "Old Unreconstructed."

Perhaps that is why I have known Southerners with two voices - one for Northerners and the other for Southerners.
Despite the differences, we are all Americans. We all bleed the same.

[Kendall]

I hate that people think the south is just a bunch of dumb idiots bumbling around in funny accents.

[PECO]

I hate that people think the south is just a bunch of dumb idiots bumbling around in funny accents.


Those people are imbecile! A person of subnormal intelligence.