Rachel Maddow History FAIL!

I realize that it doesn’t require a lot of intelligence to be a talk-show host on MS-NBC, but shouldn’t you have to at least have the know-how to pass a high school history exam?

This is what star host Rachel Maddow had to say on her show the day after the Tea Parties:

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, appears to have his sights set on higher office. What is higher office if you’re already governor in Texas? Of course, that would be president of Texas. The return of Confederacy in American politics as seceding from the Union comes back into Republican fashion.

first Presidential candidate in 1856 ran on the principles of “Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men” and which nominated Abraham Lincoln four years later. That Republican Party) was the party of secession.

She certainly didn’t get it from preeminent Civil War historian James MacPherson, who said Confederate secession was actually triggered by the landslide victory of the Republican Party in 1860.

To southerners the election’s most ominous feature was the magnitude of Republican victory north of the 41st parallel. Lincoln won more than 60 percent of the vote in that region, losing scarcely two dozen counties. Three-quarters of the Republican congressmen and senators in the next Congress would represent this “Yankee” and antislavery portion of the free states. The New Orleans Crescent saw these facts as “full of portentous significance”. “The idle canvas prattle about Northern conservatism may now be dismissed,” agreed the Richmond Examiner. “A party founded on the single sentiment… of hatred of African slavery, is now the controlling power.” No one could any longer “be deluded… that the Black Republican party is a moderate” party, pronounced the New Orleans Delta. “It is in fact, essentially, a revolutionary party.”

Seven states seceded after the election of 1860, and before President-Elect Lincoln could officially take office: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. All but one were led by a Democratic governor. Texas Governor Sam Houston was an Independent. He was replaced before the Battle of Fort Sumter by a Democrat. Four more states seceded after that battle and they too were led by Democratic governors.

So where is this Republican tendency toward Confederate secession again?

(Via Ace’s sidebar)

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