Maryland Junk

From Yahoo:
"Maryland lawmakers junk 'Northern scum' from state song"

 

Maryland's legislature moved to toss Civil War-era lyrics about "Northern scum" and other lines disparaging President Abraham Lincoln from the official state song on Thursday. The state Senate voted 38-8 to revise the state song, with sponsors saying a modern-day Maryland needed more unifying lyrics to represent it. The state song was based on a poem written by James Ryder Randall, "Maryland! My Maryland!," in 1861 when he was despondent about the shooting of a friend by Union troops in Baltimore. The poem calls for Marylanders to fight for the Confederacy and was adapted by Southern soldiers as a battle hymn. It became the state song in 1939. Lyrics include "Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!" and refer to Lincoln as "despot" and "tyrant" and Union forces as vandals. The revised version deletes several stanzas that include those references. It adds a verse from a 1894 poem by John White, called "Maryland, My Maryland," a work which celebrates the state's natural beauty. The bill now goes to the House of Delegates.

 

 

^ It is no surprise that a southern state has these kinds of lyrics. While Maryland was not technically part of the Confederacy (because Lincoln sent Federal troops and forced them to stay "loyal") the residents were Confederate at heart. During most wars the different sides say they will punish those that loose and when the fighting stops people and governments are usually too tired from the long struggle to back those promises with action. The Allies said it during World War 2 and then let most Germans, Japanese and their collaborators to remain free. The same is the case with the Civil War. The Union/Federal side let the Confederate/Southern side carry on with their racist and anti-northern attitudes after the war ended. That didn't solve a thing. In fact it helped the Southerners to implement the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws that openly discriminated against blacks and which would led to violence through the next century when the Civil Rights Movement (and the Federal Government again) had to step in and tell the Southerners to stop being racist and backwards. I have lived in Maryland and Virginia and have seen first-hand have they continue to discriminate against others - especially non-Southerners.) It is as though it is ingrained in their DNA to hate anything that is not "native" to their territory. I have never heard or seen the concept of "Southern hospitality" against a non-Southerner. It is a farce. I remember talking to a  policeman when we lived in Virginia who said he has seen lots of cases of "passive aggressive" discrimination against non-Southerners. Of course our case was a little different as it wasn't passive, but a crime for which the one guy went to jail and another guy (in a separate case) paid our losses after we settled out of court. That is one reason why the capital should be moved away from DC (the North/South line.) It forces people to move to a discriminatory area to work for the Federal Government while the Feds and the state officials do little to nothing to protect us. ^

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maryland-lawmakers-junk-northern-scum-state-song-183133203.html