Numbers of my own...

I have multiple points, arranged in numerical order: 1) Gross, I'm glad to see you actually got around to bashing the republican party to get more writing done here. 2) A large part of anti-black sentiment in the civil war came directly from the war itself. I recall a certain picture in Brinkley (mostly because there was a crease making the book open to the certain page it was on) depicting a NY city riot, directed at blacks because of the war itself. And also, the few union states that were pro-slavery were in constant battle, and were great sympathizers. 3) I honestly don't think anybody writing for the Atimes is really anti-political parties; I think we're all just anti-stoopid people. 4) Melee Loving, no contest.