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Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names

The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.

Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first administration.

His move skirts the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military through the same maneuver used to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. In a statement, the Army said it would “take immediate action” to restore the old names of the bases originally honoring Confederates, but the base names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials.

For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower — who led the D-Day landings during World War II — would revert to the name Fort Gordon, once honoring John Brown Gordon, the Confederate slave owner and suspected Ku Klux Klan member. This time around, however, the Army said the base would instead honor Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

Are you kidding me?

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Ferise1 · 46-50, M

Cool! And by the way everyone was a slave owner back then it was the times

Northwest · M

@Ferise1

Cool! And by the way everyone was a slave owner back then it was the times

Not true.

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@Northwest yes it is true. I mean. NOT EVERYONE. But a vast number of people was.

Northwest · M

@Ferise1 In 1860, in the 15 states where slavery was legal, roughly 5% of the population were considered slaveholders. 19 states were free states.

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@Northwest ChatGPT is your friend

The percentage of farm owners who were slave owners varied significantly depending on the region, time period, and type of farming in question—most notably during the antebellum period (before the Civil War) in the Southern United States, where slavery was legal and common.

Key Estimate (U.S. South, Circa 1860):

• About 25% of Southern households owned slaves.
• Among farm owners in the South, the percentage who owned slaves was significantly higher, especially among larger farm or plantation owners.

More specific breakdown from 1860 census data:

• Small farms (less than 100 acres): Many were run by non-slaveholding families.
• Medium to large farms/plantations: The majority of these did own slaves. In some Southern counties, up to 50–80% of farm owners had enslaved people working their land.

So, a general estimate for the percentage of farm owners who were slave owners in the South would be:

🔹 Roughly 40–50% of farm owners in the South owned slaves by 1860.

In contrast:
• In the North, where slavery was abolished by the early 1800s, farm owners were not slaveholders.
• Nationally, including both North and South, less than 10% of American families owned slaves in 1860.

If you’re interested in a particular state, decade, or broader international context, feel free to ask!

Northwest · M

@Ferise1 Yet another foreigners who thinks he knows US history by asking ChatGpt.

More relevant though, you gave some figures, but they don't answer the actual question, because the answer is specific to the South only, AND it's specific to FARM owners.

But you would need to realize that US citizens were not all Southern (actually a minority were), free states were that: slavery is not allowed, and not all southerners are farmers,

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Northwest · M

@Ferise1

yes it does answer the question, 40 to 50% of southern farm owners were slave owners. NNot 5% you pathetic little man.

You don't understand English, on top of being history challenged. In fact, this is what I said:

In 1860, in the 15 states where slavery was legal, roughly 5% of the population were considered slaveholders.

Get your remedial English class, so you can improve your English comprehension.

And ChatGPT gets its info from Google, which gets its info from different website websites which gets its info from historical document documents

Once more, and not surprisingly, not really. Not that it really matters, but here's a clue for you. I ask Google: does chatgpt get its data from google? And Google said:

No, ChatGPT does not get its data directly from Google Search.

ChatGPT gets its data from a variety of sources, including:

Publicly available information on the internet: This includes websites, books, news articles, and other text-based content.

Information from third-party search providers: For ChatGPT search, it can integrate with third-party search providers like Microsoft Bing to access information beyond its training cutoff date.

Media partnerships: ChatGPT search incorporates content feeds from various media partners.

Information provided by users, human trainers, and researchers: This data is used for model development and fine-tuning.

Specific datasets for training: The models powering ChatGPT are trained on massive datasets like Common Crawl, WebText2, Books1, Books2, and Wikipedia.

Now that I gave you the Google answer, I will also clue you in that I've been developing training models and analysis engines since 2009. There are a multitude of other sources not listed by the Google answer as well. Such as this conversation, GitHub, Gitlab, etc.

You lame ass

Your participation in this conversation is conditioned on your ignorant ass being polite to the participants, and myself. If you persist, your comments will be deleted. Got it? And learn something while you're at it.

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@Northwest Roughly 40–50% of farm owners in the South owned slaves by 1860.

Northwest · M

@Ferise1

Roughly 40–50% of farm owners in the South owned slaves by 1860.

That might be closer to the truth. And it would still not taking into consideration the fact that not all Southerners were farm owners. The computation is complicated, but it translates into roughly 5% of Southern whites, were slave owners.

When you add the Northern population, into the mix, it translates into less than 2% of the US population in 1860 owning slaves.

So, you see how you can see that your statements are mostly false, and your overall conclusion is 100% false.

You're welcome.

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Northwest · M

@Ferise1 you were warned.

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AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Northwest pretty much the same amount of people who are able to afford to drive Ferraris today owned slaves back then. Very small number of the total population.

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@AthrillatheHunt 50% of farm owners

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Ferise1 yea you right dog. I think in today’s dollars you’d pay about 125k - 150k for a slave . Something half of everybody can afford .

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@AthrillatheHunt really? Half the people can afford that.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Ferise1 no they can’t . Only the wealthy can .

Ferise1 · 46-50, M

@AthrillatheHunt will ChatGPT says half of southernfarm Owners had slaves.