I don't understand; why do people defend things such as the confederate flag

[Pat Mustard]

The South's defeat was extremely humiliating. That defeat was followed by a pervasive and unwanted injection of Yankee culture.

Tell your southern friend that he's an awful liar. The northern influence on the south lasted only to Johnson's presidency in 1866. Granted, Hyram Ulysses Grant tried to reintroduce reconstruction and rights for black people, but by then the south was de facto back to ante-bellum status vis a vis civil rights.

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They keep saying "country" music, but they never say which country.

Does any other country besides 'Murica even create country music?

Ireland, to my eternal shame. It's gotten so bad that people immigrate in from more enlightened countries to play the shite here.

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Ireland, the source of it at least.
And really any country's "folk" music is their version of our "country" music.

Actually proper folk music sounds nothing like country music.
Does this:



or this



sound like this




Your honour, foreman and members of the jury, ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case. You must acquit.

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Who is the old bag on your $20 bill again?

The, ethnically German, Queen of Canada.