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Originally Posted by LynnWM158
Not everyone born and bred in the south has ancestors who were members of the confederacy.....none of my ancestors were slave owners or members of the confederacy. Sounds like you might have a bit of prejudice
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You're missing the point. One of the criteria of being a member of the confederacy is - you have to have been a resident of one of the confederate states, or actively serving the confederacy at the time the confederacy existed. Does that mean everyone living there was a confederate? Nope. But it means if you were NOT living in the confederacy, and your ancestors were not actively serving the confederacy, then you and your family cannot possibly have been a confederate.
Schwartz's family was not from the south, and his family weren't even in the USA at the time of the Confederacy his father's side of the family was still in Hungary - and therefore weren't capable of being members of the confederacy.
Not prejudice. Mathematical deduction: "If you want B to be true, then A must also be true. If A is not true, then B cannot be true."