07-06-2020, 10:52 PM
(07-06-2020, 09:56 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: While many things showing the confederate battle flag or referencing Confederate officers are being struck down these days, it seems there is at least one thing immune. CNN reports the car 'General Lee' from the Dukes of Hazzard TV show has not drawn any fire.
The Appalachian parts of Virginia were pro-Union enough that most of them seceded from Virginia as the state of West Virginia. Eastern Kentucky was strongly pro-Union in the Ci il War. Eastern Tennessee, which had a very different economic reality from that of plantation-dominated western Tennessee, voted heavily against the referendum on secession. Ordinarily mountainous areas are difficult areas through which to send troops -- unless the population is sympathetic to the invaders as liberators (think of Italy in WWII -- the Nazis and Italian fascists could never maintain pockets of resistance in the Apenine Mountains)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.