VP Beast Butler?

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And I think the key to finally getting over the divisions caused by the Civil War is to understand that both sides had their faults and needed a better way to clean up their acts than to kill off nearly 650,000 people and lay waste to large sections of the country that would take decades to rebuild. Did anyone learn a lesson? Look what they did with Reconstruction.

It may depend on where you live, but I think that the Uncle Remus days have been long forgotten as a symbol of the "peaceful" South. If it wasn't dead already, it sure was badly beaten up during the riots of 1969 here in D.C. As for the noble Northern warriors, I dare say that 90% of our population today would be hard pressed to name even ten of the Union's military and political leaders. I can think of three prominent gentlemen in the political/social world today that I would like to put that test to...