My cousin had a teacher from the south come in to teach them about the civil war. The teacher said that the south won. So are all southeners like that, or just the dumb@$$es.
2007-01-07 16:19:48 · 23 answers · asked by rickle91 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I don't know where she was from and the spell check froze and it changed the first word in my Q.
2007-01-07 16:24:10 · update #1
Some of you scare me with those answers. The south lost, get over it. Im not saying your all rednecks but most of you think we are still at war!
2007-01-07 16:30:51 · update #2
bamaglory, that is just really disturbing... do you know thats really sad.
2007-01-07 16:41:55 · update #3
Sereously, it was my cousin cause my aunt couldnt belevie what she was saying.
2007-01-08 07:34:08 · update #4
I am Grit Eatin' Alabama girl....
But I did make "A's" in history class.
I hate when "Rednecks" make the rest of us
"Southerner's" look bad...
2007-01-07 16:27:06 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Saying that "my cousin had a teacher" is a little like saying "a friend of my brothers' nephew..." The credibility in such a statement is completely lacking and therefore makes it VERY difficult to take your question seriously.
Another factor which makes it difficult to take your question seriously is that we Southerners have been hearing that same, tired old question since April 9, 1865. (That's the exact date that the war ended, by the way.) Throwing in the "dumba$$es" part didn't help your credibility any, either. That would be akin to my asking if all Yankees were as ignorant on this topic as you are, but I won't ask that.
But as for your question, IF the teacher said this (which I seriously doubt, by the way - I think your cousin is 'funnin' with you) then the teacher was wrong.
So let me ask you - why are you willing to harbor the belief that ALL Southerners and the Southern states "still think" that we won the war, based solely on the word of your "cousin's teacher?" Are you that easily misled, or would you rather base your opinions on factual research that you conduct yourself?
Or would you rather just remain ignorant on the topic? (And don't confuse 'ignorant' with 'stupid.' 'Ignorant' is not having had the experience or knowledge; 'stupid' is just not having the brains in the first place."
2007-01-08 00:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol, before everything i change into like, "Who would not learn about the Civil warfare?" yet then I examine that you've been English and now it truly is smart. I in no way extremely idea about what foreigners might want to ascertain about American historic previous. besides, really the full warfare change into over slavery. The north did not like it, the south did. yet, abolishing slavery a objective a lot later. After Lincoln change into elected president, a number of the Southern states left the Union. right now, the significant objective change into to maintain the Union, not abolish slavery. (After the Emanicpation Proclamation, the objective change into to abolish slavery. That extra an ethical ingredient to it). Why did some southern states go away the Union even as Lincoln change into elected? Southern states feared that Lincoln does not enable slavery spread to the recent territories, which threatened their (southern states') skill in Congress. for sure, the north didnt' desire slavery to spread because they were all loose states and so that they needed to keep their skill in Congress. it consistently comes all the way down to skill, would not it? besides, the South change into scuffling with to maintain their rights (they made the slavery question change into one about states' rights) The North initially needed to maintain the Union, yet after the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed all the slaves contained in the states that had left the Union. sure, it extremely would not make experience as they couldn't extremely implement it.) inspite of the indisputable fact that, this extra a good number of morality into the warfare and they did not like it to be fought it ineffective, they needed to get something out of the warfare, they needed to now loose the slaves. The north ended up prevailing and this led to the south having to loose their slaves, do not imagine this solved each little thing, inspite of the indisputable fact that. there change into nevertheless a good number of racism contained in the south. yet a minimum of the blacks were loose and the Union change into mutually. *by Union I recommend the country, it change into merely called that way.
2016-12-01 23:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by korniyenko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If i were to guess, from an educated point of view on the subject, that the teacher was not talking about the war in general. To say "the south won the war" is ludicrous.
What the teacher probably meant, was the south was successfull in establishing their individual states rights, which was the major reason for the war in the first place.
The industrialized northern states were trying to gain leverage over the southern states.
After the war, legislation gave equal representation to all states.
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I guess you northerners are just a bunch of dumb@$$es who don't realize what the war was about. You all think it was about slavery, right?
2007-01-07 16:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am Southern-born and Southern-bred, but I know the South lost the Civil War. But we are really getting our a**es handed to us now by letting our once beautiful land be over developed, our lakes polluted, our forests clear cut and a friggin cell-phone tower on every mountain. Sad to say, the South ain't ever gonna raise again from this...
By the way, I was 16 years old before I realized damn Yankee was two words...
2007-01-07 16:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Obviously we didn't win. I live in the bootheel of Missouri, the very very bottom. Although Missouri was a Northern state we live so far out in the country we consider ourselves Southern. We would have fought for the southern. My point is I don't think the South will rise again, I don't really care if we would have won rather than losing like we did. It was a brutal war and the outcome brought us to where we are. So yeah it's just the idiots who think the south will rise again.
2007-01-07 16:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by xI Crusader lx 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Accuse me, but actually they teach the Civil War differently in the South than in the North. Contrary to popular belief, the civil war was not JUSt about slavery.
2007-01-07 18:01:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
:)
actually rumor is that the civil war ended:
Rose Bowl, January 1, 1926 - Alabama 20, Washington 19
so the south won..... :) j/k
2007-01-07 19:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accuse you of what? Being ignorant. Every one in the South knows who won and lost the civil war.
2007-01-07 16:26:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
How rude of you! Robin Williams said we got the Alman Brothers & Nascar. He thought we won. I am sure your cousin did not listen as no Southerner would be so ungracious as to not admit defeat & no teacher would lie about history.
2007-01-07 16:28:08 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
the south controls the oil so if you want to continue to keep warm you better shut your yap but no the south didnt win but not because we didnt give it hell.............if we scare you go cry to mama
2007-01-07 16:33:09 · answer #11 · answered by edward m 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋