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Can you name some examples of US politicians who you support, vote for, donate to, or just who your views align with?

So far you seem to take the stance of “I don’t agree with anyone, I’m very independent” which... great, I guess, but you still identify as conservative so you clearly have preferences.

I’d also like to hear what, in your opinion, differentiates Reagan/Gingrich from people like Trump/McConnell, other than that the latter tend to turn dog whistles into bullhorns.

Why do you need specifically southern white history? Why can't your heroes be the same people that northerners lionize? Why can't you put up statues of Lincoln, or Grant, or Louis Armstrong, or whoever else you have that's notable for something BESIDES mutiny against their country for the right to own black people?

The reason Germany isn't looked down upon as deplorable stupid rednecks is because they've disowned their deplorable past. If the south did the same thing, they wouldn't get flack.

What do you mean by "not a FLSA employee"? Being overtime exempt doesn't exempt you from the other provisions of the FLSA.

Most states also have their own labor laws that are analogous to the FLSA but may provide broader coverage.

Right?

Next we'll have astronomers who haven't been to space, or microbiologists who haven't even fought off bacteria in Ms. Frizzle's bus.

The second one.

Basically northerners accepted that, in order to make southerners feel better about themselves and hopefully integrate themselves into society, they would play along with the nonsense narrative that the war was really about "state's rights", or taxation, or whatever other issue. This is when basically all of the confederate monuments were built, and when the confederate flag became a fashionable thing to fly in the south again.

At the same time, the federal government effectively withdrew from the south, allowing southern politicians to completely erase the remarkable ~15 year period of relative prosperity black people enjoyed there immediately after the war. We ended up with 80 more years of Jim Crow and the legalized murder of black people - effectively a segmented terrorist regime running 1/4 of the country.

It's still EXTREMELY common to hear people call the Civil War the "War of Northern Aggression" if you go south of the Mason-Dixon. We coddled a group of terrible people, and we're still dealing with the aftermath today.