Quote:So I'm a "neoconfederate" for saying that Lincoln provoked the incident? was Lincoln really that naive not to expect that the Confederates would retaliate for the perceived incursion? who said anything about Jefferson Davis? did P.G.T. Beauregard not have a hand in that whole thing as well?

 

 

So everyone who opposes Lincon's policies is automatically labeled as a neoconfederate? WOW. Like really, wow. This is why history is so messed up these days. Nobody can have a civil discussion looking at both sides of a historical event; without being labeled something, or being accused of something that they're really not. The South and Jefferson Davis made a lot of boneheaded decisions too. 

 

 

I said it once and I'll say it again: no other single event has scarred this Country more than the Civil War. The fact that we're having this debate 150 years after the Surrender at Appomattox proves this fact.

 

Everyone who paints the south in a heroic light is a neoconfederate, yes.  Just like people who supports socialism are socialists.  That's the definition.  It's no different than saying "Liberals support the Affordable Care Act"  Neo just means 'new'.   Those who wish to attach the ideals of libertarianism to the confederates (minus the whole issue of slavery).

 

Lincoln was not so naive to believe that it wouldn't provoke a retaliation -- he certainly anticipated it as a possible outcome. But why is Lincoln the only one to blame, when the South (which you implied had no blame in the matter with your response to flsprtsgod) was the one who retaliated, when they too could have chosen not to.

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