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F U PC people.  THis is another reason why I'm voting for Trump.  
Recognition of history is more important to me than you bigoted SOB's that only want to live PC[/quote]

Yes, because I'm sure Germany has so many roads and buildings named after Hitler or other Third Reich top officials that still remain today.

[b]Jefferson Davis = treason.  Pure and simple.[/b]
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Not treason to his state. I'm not sure why you assume that the federal association should be thought to automatically take president over the state association. If a Frenchman today participated in a movement to have France secede from the European Union, would you call him a "traitor" to the E.U.? That's what the United states was like in 1860. It wasn't hat it is today. One's state citizenship was far more important in relation to federal citizenship. A Virginian who sided with the union would have been as much or more of a "traitor."[/quote]

WTF???  It's 2015 - the civil war ended over 150 years ago.  And, the STATE of Virginia is PART OF THE COUNTRY OF THE U.S.A.!!!  The E.U. is a mechanism of common commerce in Europe; if any country wants to go back to carrying it's own currency for any reason it does not mean they are enemies of those countries that remain in it.
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You realize that states are not subdivisions of the federal government, right? Quite the contrary, the states are sovereign entities that exist in their own right and which have general (as opposed to limited or enumerated) power, and the United States is a [i]federation[/i] (i.e., why we call it "federal") with certain enumerated powers. Note that states use their sovereignty to do things like issue marriage licenses, which the federal government lacks the power to do. The European Union is also a federation. It is not just a "mechanism of commerce." While the E.U. has less powers than the U.S. does today, it certainly regulates more than commerce. [/quote]

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