<DIV>Sherman initially proposed to have the entire Southern ruling class shot. Probably it would not have been a bad idea. jks Miles Jackson <cqmv@pdx.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > >So, what's your Southern strategy? > > What's your anything strategy? > > For now, I say forget the South, at least the white part. It's > solidly Republican but only a minority of the U.S. population. The > Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Coast are far larger and far > more promising. > > Doug Ya know, the more I think about it, what was so fucking awful about the secession of the South? I'm serious: The Confederacy would no doubt be a very scary place today, had it survived, but frankly, the rest of us would be much better off. Miles ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).