Steve Earle - Dixieland Videos

danzo0991 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - lincoln was the tyrant money grubbing jew... he couldnt stand that the south was doing better then the north rebel pride

johnyreb13 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - it was about state rights

blazenskate Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - its the stupidist thing in the world when ppl say the confederate flag is rascist and the war was mostly about the tarrifs and taxes the north was putting on the south and also states rights!

57goldtoplespaul Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Some people just don't know their history. There was more to the Civil War then Slavery, then money it's those damn texts books in schools full of Bias. Not looking at things from two sides but one.

johnfinbarburke Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - i love this guy ,,,.,. great singer ,,.,.,

cowboy4cowgirl Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - the civil war fought because the south couldn't afford to lose the south's high income from cotton and tobacco i agree with ya robertellis3 the reason why there is no way the war was about slavary is because if you actaully a black history book you will find that the slaves were treated worse in some places of the north than in the south and people in the north had slaves too im not sayin that slavery was right cause it wasn't

cowboy4cowgirl Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - also im a redneck from virginia born and bred in the southren way of life i fly two confederate flag on my pickup because i am honoring my ancestors who fought in the civil war. im not a raccist i have many black friends. all of which are offended by my flags

cowboy4cowgirl Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - opps typo meant to say not offended by my flags

cowboy4cowgirl Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - and one more thing if the blacks ancestors wouldnt have sold them in the first place there wouldnt have ever been a problem

tybear955 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - northerners had hundreds of times less slaves then the south. most slaves ancestors in africa were already slaves

TheWarriorsCode Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - u know lincoln was quoted as saying "If i could end the war without freeing a single slave i would".robert e.lee owned ZERO slaves while both sherman and grant owned several dozen.Slavery was later added as the "theme" if u will to give northern soldiers a moral motivation.The war broke out cuz the south suceeded and that only happened cuz we had no say in government.EVERY southern state voted against licoln and he still won.anybody remember "no taxation without representaion?"

TheWarriorsCode Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - yall are about 2 call me a racist but i really dont care.Y cant blacks let slavery go?Ok it was bad, my family owned 3 plantations,but i didnt,and not one black man livin in america has every been forced to work a cotton field.I aint gona apoligize for slavery cuz iv never owned a slave,just like uv never been a slave.The confederate flag flew over slavery for 5 years,while the US flag flew 4 100 years.Get over it,we realized our mistake and now its been fixed. lets get on with our lives.thank u

BIGdipper911 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - The Confederate Flag flew over Slavery. While this is true, the same can be said of the u.S. Flag. The u.S. Flag flew over slavery a full 70 years before the Confederate States of America came into existence. The Confederate Flag never flew over the Ships that brought the slaves over here. To top it all off, the Confederate States of America freed her slaves in 1863; the Federal Union didn't do it until 1868 with the passage of the 13th amendment.

rickhorror Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - genius. thank you.

libertyM60 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - I don't think it was so much about slavery as states rights. So i guess i disagree with him. Not that slavery didn't play apart in it..but border states like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland still had slavery through out and for a brief while after the civil war. Good song though..i like it.

ZANGZANGDANZ Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - The war was about the state right to slavery. Read the various states articles of secession. They explicitly mention how their property rights were not being protected in the north, ie how northern states passed laws that prevented slave catchers from bringing escaped slaves back. Moreover, Jefferson Davis wanted a more centralized government in the south than the federal system of the USA, ie, less states rights. Read a book you stars and bartards

TheSouthernGentleman Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Its true

kimlimbo Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - states rights was justification for war. this is different than the cause of war wmds for example. all wars are fought for money and or land from which one can make money off of.

LunaCat59 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - love it! all us mother fuckers should talk like him! he's just amazing....love him!

SidNightWalker Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - All the CiE's were nuts nuts...and are still nuts now.Ya feel me?

14MountainMama21 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - I RESENT SOME OF HIS COMMENTS

westphalianprinz Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - On the last sentence, you are correct. State's rights is what got the poor white man to take up arms to defend a rich plantation owner's right to own labor, which in effect drove down the wages of free labor. The average white person in the South got little from slavery but lower wages and poor standard of living. But this state's rights canard drove them to fight to defend a system that did nothing but fuck them over. And that's what's wrong with the South now.

BabaORiley1972 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Why should you resent anything Steve Earle says?

Hdawg510 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Im just about the biggest southerner out there. But besides his political stand point on Dixie Land, it's still a great song. Long live the south!

westphalianprinz Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - West Virginia was required to have some clause about abolition in its constitution when it became a state. Maryland adopted the similar clause. In WV, there were very few slaves. Only Kentucky and Delaware held onto slavery at the end of the war. And my ancestors were New Yorkers who bought land in Northwestern Virginia. They had no allegiance to the planters in the Virginia tidewater, and they had no use for slavery. So they joined the union army and union militias.