Postby rklenseth » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:43 pm
Hey, I'm no carpetbagger, you Johnny Reb. But, yes, the Billy Yanks all the way (though there are Confederate units around as well). David, you said you were from the South right? Are there still a lot of people down there that believe that the Lost Cause will be revived someday? There was some kid that moved up to my town from Virginia. Had the Southern accent and everything. He told everyone that his father was a member of the KKK and that someday the South would rise again. One of my friends finally turned around and said to him, "We are Roman Catholic Irish Americans, you stupid Anglo-Saxon idiot, and we don't give a damn about your stupid KKK crap that wants to kill us all for being Catholic and Irish." Needless to say he didn't say anything for the rest of the year after he realized that about 85% of the people going to my school were Roman Catholic and of Irish heritage or that about 10% were Jewish. It's sorta funny how prejudice like those still exist today. He wanted nothing to do with us after he learned from what background we were from and what religion.
I have another friend from South Carolina that works at the camp that I work at every year. He says that a lot of people are talking about the Lost Cause and that perhaps someday that it will be revived. He doesn't care too much because he is Roman Catholic as well and a third generation Italian Immergrant. But that is still scary that people believe that stuff down there.