Nobody knows how many Southerners there are in this category.

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

However, many Southerners empathized with his defiance, refusal to accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction.

Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South.

For these acts he lost favor with many Southerners.

This was followed by a period that white Southerners labeled Redemption, in which white-dominated state legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws and ( after 1890 ) disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites through a combination of constitutional amendments and electoral laws.

Wilmot had a strong record of supporting the Polk administration and was close to many Southerners.

Houston supported the Oregon Bill in 1848, which was opposed by many Southerners.

Brown's subsequent capture by federal forces seized the nation's attention, as Southerners feared it was just the first of many Northern plots to cause a slave rebellion that might endanger their lives, while Republicans dismissed the notion and said they would not interfere with slavery in the South.

Seward believed that slavery was morally wrong, and said so many times, outraging Southerners.

A 2000 article in the Piedmont Triad, North Carolina News and Record noted that, for many Americans, particularly Southerners, she symbolizes innocence and purity, " new beginnings, promise, and hope " as well as " adventure and bravery " in a new land.

Along with many other Southerners, Taylor feared that these and other measures following in the train of Hamilton's financial system, were undermining the foundations of American republicanism.

While many critics have tried to reconstruct the truth behind the shifting narratives, or to show that such a reconstruction cannot be done with certainty or even that there are factual and logical inconsistencies that cannot be overcome, some critics have stated that, fictional truth being an oxymoron, it is best to take the story as a given, and regard it on the level of myth and archetype, a fable that allows us to glimpse the deepest levels of the unconscious and thus better understand the people who accept ( and are ruled by ) that myth — Southerners in general and Quentin Compson in particular.

Although a former slaveholder, he characterized slavery as " a cancer upon the body of the Nation " and expressed the gratification which he and many other Southerners felt over its destruction.

After the Civil War, many Northern Republicans, whom Southerners called carpetbaggers, came to the defeated Southern states to work in the rebuilding process.

In 1865 at the end of the American Civil War a substantial number of American Southerners left the South ; many moved to other parts of the United States, such as the American West, but a few left the country entirely.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee advised Southerners against emigration, but many ignored their advice and set out to establish a new life away from the destruction of war and American rule under Reconstruction.

Realizing that his position was becoming precarious, he sought support from the Southerners in the U. S. by recasting his campaign as a fight to spread the institution of black slavery, which many American Southern businessmen saw as the basis of their agrarian economy.

William Walker convinced many Southerners of the desirability of creating a slave-holding empire in tropical Latin America.

The Davises lived in Washington, DC for most of the next fifteen years before the American Civil War, which gave Howell Davis a broader outlook than many Southerners.

Sherman's scorched earth policies have always been highly controversial, and Sherman's memory has long been reviled by many Southerners.

Even into the twentieth century, however, Van Lew was regarded by many Southerners as a traitor.

However many Southerners became dissatisfied as Jackson, in his first two annual messages to Congress, failed to launch a strong attack on the tariff.

", to which he received a resounding cheer from the crowd, after which he went out and took his ' lap of honour ' where he met and shook hands with many of the fans.

Her first official appearance in Paris on 8 June 1773 at the Tuileries was considered by many royal watchers a resounding success, with a reported 50, 000 people crying out to see her.

On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic ; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

Clutch turtles are greatly feared and avoided by the Yxtrang as the result of a resounding defeat in battle many years prior to the timeframe of the story.

The resulting presentation was a resounding success and since has been expanded and enhanced with computer-generated imagery specifically assembled at the requests of such clients as Disney, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue, Pratt University, the Society of Illustrators and many others both academic and corporate around the world.

Another controversial issue proposed by his administration was the now failed referendum on social policy, which many observers now say led to the resounding defeat at the polls for the FNM in 2002, with a 29 – 7 overwhelming margin of victory for the incoming Progressive Liberal Party.

His poems, thirty-four in number, are inspired by philanthropy and patriotism ; the style is occasionally gallicized, and the thought is not profound, but his nobility of sentiment and resounding rhetoric attract many generations of Spaniards.

Although critics at the time were divided in their response to the play, the debut of The Cherry Orchard by the Moscow Art Theater on January 17, 1904 ( Chekhov's birthday ) was a resounding theatrical success and the play was almost immediately presented in many of the important provincial cities.

Warner Bros. were initially anxious about the commercial appeal of Simon's innovative fusion of rock with African styles but the album was a resounding success, topping the charts in many countries, reaching # 3 in the US and producing two US Top 20 singles.

" ( 1983 ) was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, four studio albums, a resounding tour and many TV Cartoons which have been broadcasting in over 100 countries round the world followed.

Kani joined The Serpent Players ( a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name ) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.

The Mariners ' inaugural season was considered a resounding success by many, with the team reaching the A-League grand final after finishing third during the regular season.

The film was a resounding failure and still appears on many critics ' " worst ever " lists ; however the soundtrack album sold well in some parts of the world.

He then started a series of resounding victories ( e. g. ), and finished the tournament with 9. 5 − 3. 5, along with future FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, and ahead of Judit Polgár, Nigel Short, and many other world-class players.

This production premiered to a resounding success, and was retained in the company's repertory for many years.

Following their defeat, a considerable number of Uruzgani left the country, as did many Jaghori, their nearest neighbors to the northeast.

On hearing of the rebel defeat in April 1939, Montgomery said, " I shall be sorry to leave Palestine in many ways, as I have enjoyed the war out here ".

The National Front system itself eventually began to be seen as a form of political repression by dissidents and even many mainstream voters, especially after wljhhat was apparently later confirmed as the fraudulent election of Conservative candidate Misael Pastrana in 1970, which resulted in the defeat of the relatively populist candidate Gustavo Rojas.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

Hopes for the Enlightenment, human rights, republican government, democracy, and freedom after Napoleon I's defeat in 1815 were dashed, however, when the Congress of Vienna reinstated many monarchies.

The King ( and many Feuillants with him ) expected war would increase his personal popularity ; he also foresaw an opportunity to exploit any defeat: either result would make him stronger.

Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.

Jensen ( 1999 ) argues that the defeat of 1898 led many military officers to abandon the liberalism that had been strong in the officer corps and turn to the right.

After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews.

ISAF and Afghan troops led many offensives against the Taliban but failed to fully defeat them.

The defeat however consummated many Afrikaners ' ambition: South Africa would be under white rule.

The collapse of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, was seen by many Islamists, including Bin Laden, as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam, the $ 6 billion in aid given by the US to the mujahideen having nothing to do with the victory.

Based in the Everglades of Florida, Osceola and his band used surprise attacks to defeat the U. S. Army in many battles.

In the aftermath of the defeat of the British at the Battle of Isandlwana many Martini-Henry rifles were captured by the Zulus together with considerable amounts of ammunition.

* 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1, 300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners.

During many years of Livonian War ( 1558 – 1582 ), however, they suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in 1560 and continued living under great threat.

After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, Fraser claimed Howard approached him in a corridor, following a cabinet meeting in May 1977 regarding Vietnamese refugees, and said: " We don't want too many of these people.

Heavy cavalry was the difference between victory and defeat in many key battles.

He succeeded in bribing Order Master Andreas von Stierland, who was still angry at Vykintas for the defeat at the Battle of Saule in 1236, by sending him " many gifts ".

In this position, she found herself privy to intelligence on Axis operations in the United States, and many time foiled agents of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy in their attempts to defeat the Allies and achieve world domination.

Pegasus allows the hero to ride him to defeat a monster, the Chimera, before realizing many other exploits.

The rise of Napoleon saw the end of the First French Republic, and his eventual defeat allowed the victorious monarchies to put an end to many of the oldest republics on the continent, including Venice, Genoa, and the Dutch.