According to Politico, the Mississippi Governor
has now made a forthright declaration about the events swirling around what some Southerners still call the War of Northern Aggression. "Slavery was the primary, central, cause of secession," Barbour told me Friday. "The Civil War was necessary to bring about the abolition of slavery," he continued. "Abolishing slavery was morally imperative and necessary, and it's regrettable that it took the Civil War to do it. But it did." Now, saying slavery was the cause of the South's Lost Cause hardly qualifies as breaking news "” it sounds more like "olds." But for a Republican governor of Mississippi to say what most Americans consider obvious truth is news. Big news.
Are we living in some kind of bizarro world? Just think about that for a second and ask yourself, how is it possible that this "forthright declaration" from a national figure in the Republican ...
