Steve Earle - Dixieland
BackSteve Earle performing at the Operation Ceasefire Concert in Wasington DC on 9/24/2005
Channel: Music
Uploaded: June 18, 2006 at 8:02 am
Author: jackynjimy
Length: 00:05:30
Rating: 4.49
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Video Comments:
westphalianprinz (October 6, 2008 at 10:23 am)
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.
Hdawg510 (October 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm)
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!
14MountainMama21 (September 23, 2008 at 11:01 am)
I RESENT SOME OF HIS COMMENTS
BabaORiley1972 (September 29, 2008 at 11:54 pm)
Why should you resent anything Steve Earle says?
SidNightWalker (September 6, 2008 at 8:11 pm)
All the CiE's were nuts nuts...and are still nuts now.Ya feel me?
LunaCat59 (August 11, 2008 at 3:25 pm)
love it! all us mother fuckers should talk like him! he's just amazing....love him!
kimlimbo (August 11, 2008 at 12:23 am)
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.
westphalianprinz (September 23, 2008 at 4:10 pm)
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.
TheSouthernGentleman (August 4, 2008 at 2:27 pm)
Its true
ZANGZANGDANZ (July 16, 2008 at 10:35 pm)
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