HikerTom wrote:
If you don't know your Civil War history, Kansas was known as "Bleeding Kansas", the whole Border Ruffians thing with Missouri, pro and anti-Union/slavery guerillas who slaughtered people in both states, starting notably with Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, killing 200 people. Lawrence was founded by anti-slavery folks who wanted to prevent Kansas from being admited into the Union as a slave state.
HikerTom....I wasn't gonna walk down this road....but seein' as how the door done been opened:
YES! What he said! We Jayhawkers WILL ride into your town, burn it to the ground, and take the women folk we want with us! However, Lawrence got back exactly what it dished out, though. Turn about is fair play. Quantrill was just gettin' even for some non-sense the Lawrence folks perpetrated across the border in Missouri. Lawrence likes to play the "innocent victim"....but the fact is Jayhawkers were and are some pretty brutal motherfuckers when ya get right down to it...
Lawrence, Kansas was founded by merchants on the Eastern seaboard who paid down on their luck peoples and families to come to the Kansas territory and vote the way they were instructed by their puppet masters back east. Had nothing to do about anything OTHER than mercantilism: East Coast traders needed a "free state" friendly area in order to control business interests. While guys like John Brown were the real deal....most of the others were just trying to "get over". There is a real good reason why Brown vs. The Board of Education eminated out of Topeka, Kansas and not Selma, Alabama: Segregation was very intense and the Western part of the state (which my dead grandaddy always referred to as "...a different country....") remains much as it was 150 years ago attitudinally. Remember, too, where good ole Tim McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols launched from?
Yeah....we gots us our own ways of dealing with stuffs ..... *shrug*
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