You know the rules. Here’s the quote. This is from Chapter 4 (Race and Slavery of Michael Fellman’s The Making of Robert E. Lee (2000)….
]]>I am no liberal, which you would know if you had read much of anything else I’ve posted, but neither am I the type to be scared by incantations of partisan labels — if I were a liberal (classical or modern) that would do nothing to undermine (or to support) the historical points that I make above. Those can stand on their own quite apart from my own sympathies, and my own wisdom or folly in politics.
Whether I am a cry baby
or not is something that people who know me are better qualified to judge than either you or I. As for Southern heritage,
, I’ve already remarked elsewhere that that’s my heritage you’re talking about, and that I am proud enough and knowledgeable enough about where I come from not to be bullied by two-bit Dixie revivalists who want to annex the term to their counter-historical Lost Cause mythology. Which was, you may notice, part of the point of this post.
Hope this helps.
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