@edgarblythe,
Good morning, edgar and WA2K folks.
Loved your goodnight song, buddy. Tony and the shadow of his smile was great.
Dear Roy Hamilton. How tragic that the man should die so young. That song from Carousal is one that I especially like, Texas, and a good way to begin the day.
Today is this lovely lady's birthday, so here is one by her, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIw4gc6G8Q&feature=related
And from The Fab Four, one that reflects the horror of the human predators in Haiti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEIrHyaqC6s&feature=related
It is like the aftermath of the Civil War revisited.
Scalawags formed a winning coalition with freedmen (blacks who were former slaves) and Northern newcomers (pejoratively labeled carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments. Despite being a minority, they gained power by taking advantage of the Reconstruction laws of 1867 that disenfranchised (forbidding to vote or hold office) the majority of Southerners who could not or did not wish to take the ironclad oath certifying that they did not serve in Confederate military or hold any office under the previous regime. This coalition controlled for varying lengths of time during 1866-1877 every ex-Confederate state except Virginia. Two of the most prominent scalawags were General James Longstreet (Robert E. Lee's top general, after Stonewall Jackson), and Joseph E. Brown, the wartime governor of Georgia. In the 1870s, many switched from the Republican Party to the conservative-Democrat coalition, who called themselves Redeemers. Conservative Democrats replaced all Southern state Republican regimes by 1877.
