The Confederates

Rush Limbaugh:

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery it’s Caucasians. The White race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world. [...]

Despite all that, no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery, which we did. Nearly 600,000 people killed in the Civil War. It’s preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they have done more to end it than any other race and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot. Yet white guilt about slavery is still one of the dominating factors in American politics.

Ok, yeah... see the problem is that "we" did not fight a war for the purpose of ending slavery.  Conservatives in the south fought that war to keep slavery.  We progressives, we northerners, we non-confederates, fought that war to end slavery.  And today Rush is on the side of the confederates. 

If you have any doubt about which side is which, Google "the southern strategy" and read all about how Rush's modern GOP deliberately built its base with racists.  If you have any doubt, notice that to this day the modern Republican parrty has its political and philosophical power base in the confederate south.  And if you still have doubt, go there, and see if GOP base doesn't prefer the confederate flag to the American flag.