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Originally Posted by tomder55

Time to purge the name 'New York '. Yes ,New York was named after James Stuart ;the Duke of York who later became King James II of England and James VII of Scotland . He was one of the most successful slave traders in the colonies . During the Civil War many of the working class New Yorkers opposed waging war on the South and considered freed slaves as competitors . There were draft riots in NYC that had to be put down by Federal Troops . Clearly a "great" city in America should not have to live with the stain of being named after a slave trader . Go to work American Taliban and remove this blight and purge the name New York from our history !!

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You are a reversionist Tom, would you like it returned to its former name of New Amsterdam, or just call it Manhattan? And what will you do with the name of the state? Give it its indigenous name? And what of New Hampshire? Virginia? Carolina? Georgia? These names survived a bloody revolution. All the ports that were slave ports will have to hang their head in shame and should have done so 150 years ago. I thought the Civil War was over, but apparently not

Civil Wars never end
,they just reinvent themselves . The American Civil was just a continuation of the differences between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists . The American revolution was a civil war by another name. While we read about the battles between the colonial soldiers and the Brits there was a nasty civil war between the rebels and the loyalists . Many loyalists were ethnically purged and forced to move to Canada .

Ours has devolved into the nastiest kind..... whereas the goal of the South was to leave the union with the territory they occupied ;the modern American Civil war is competing for territory both sides occupy .

And the rent is still too friggin' high! That's what the modern civil war is about, same as the other one.