text: Steve Heimel - It is very sad when ignorance is allowed to rule the conversations we have in this country. Thank you for trying to educate some people. As a northerner who doesn't believe in forcing others to cowtow to my opinions, I appreciate the effort to at least insert some reality into the discussion. The South lost that war, but in many ways the entire country lost it because a part of what motivated the Revolutionary War -- that yearning for freedom -- was stomped into the mud and we've never really gotten it back.