someonelse: I fail to understand why anyone would want to be seen in public looking like a homemade kleenex cozy from a ladies auxiliary craft sale.

Dude, my ex-wife could claim membership in Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the Revolution. She ate crap like this up, then gladly went back for seconds. On some road trip from Georgia to Florida for some family reunion thing, she and relatives kept on pointing out to this Western Yankee every single decrepit barn or FUBAR field, saying "Look! That's what Sherman did!" At the reunion I was the funny guy who took the salt and poured it on the ground, telling them Sherman's Ghost spoke to me and told me to finish the job.

mofomisfit: Ex Parte Gilligan
someonelse: I fail to understand why anyone would want to be seen in public looking like a homemade kleenex cozy from a ladies auxiliary craft sale.

Dude, my ex-wife could claim membership in Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the Revolution. She ate crap like this up, then gladly went back for seconds. On some road trip from Georgia to Florida for some family reunion thing, she and relatives kept on pointing out to this Western Yankee every single decrepit barn or FUBAR field, saying "Look! That's what Sherman did!" At the reunion I was the funny guy who took the salt and poured it on the ground, telling them Sherman's Ghost spoke to me and told me to finish the job.

If someone pointed a structure out to me like that I'd have to query them as to whether or not they believed certain states seceding from the Union just may have precipitated said destruction.

Yeah, that whole cause and effect thing is part of what you and I would call a "rational debate", which those people (and yes, I use that term pejoratively) just cannot have when it comes to matters of the "glorious past".