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Originally posted by bios
As I recall the Republicans were the party of Lincoln.
Just more spin from the left - who cares.
Red States = Slave States
Anyone surprised?
Originally posted by twitchy
I disagree. To confine the movement to geographical consideration is really to misunderstand the objectives, this isn't a geopolitical issue. This is about industrialism and its grip on our political institutions. The american civil war was clearly North vs South, however should such another event take place, it will not be so easily defined by any lines on a map. I would go so far as to speculate there would be more similarites to the Bolshevik movements in Czarist Russia than the American Civil War. Until Diebold and others involved in the election results are raked over the coals and exposed, I wouldn't trust any demographic representations of the sides to be taken in such an event.
Originally posted by Jamuhn
The reason the confederate states were confederate came from their belief in state's rights. As well, Lincoln was actually a democrat, advocating the Union or federal government. Democrats would like more government in our lives while repubs want less. These states having slavery was a consequence of having state right's not under the law of federal gov. The civil war changed all this and ultimately made it so that we became citizens of a federal government rather than citizens of the states we lived in.
Originally posted by namehere
no it was imperialism, the civil war was unjustified, and they believed that states have rights and northern states suppressed southern states like they didnt matter, that pushed the south away, the csa had a federal government too so your point is baseless, slavery existed before the south split so again the federal excuse is baseless.
Originally posted by curme
Should we start an underground railroad for gays and the "non-god"?
Originally posted by Jamuhn
There was federal government but the government didn't have near the power that they did afterwards. As well, there were some states that freed slaves before the civil war ended, and the 14th amendment was passed, and reconstruction occured. Also, I really don't know what you are trying to say.
Id support an underground railroad for gays
Should we start an underground railroad for gays and the "non-god"?