[anton]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

[cuban leaf]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

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This is the frustrating part of this for me. The US really needed to be kept together, but the way he did it was less than honorable.

Also, it is what gave us big government. Before Lincoln, the united states was more akin to the EU. The federal government was VERY limited. I compare it to a brick wall. the states are the bricks and the mortar holding them together is the Federal government.

Now we have a mortar wall with fifty marbles embedded in it.

[DoodleDawg]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

Wouldn't have to put up with the SEC for one thing.

[qam1]

<>What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

What a better world this would be if the south would have picked their own dam cotton!

[The_Media_never_lie]

I am a Southerner, but I doubt the world would have been a better place had the Union aggression ceased and left the South intact.

Slavery would have ended, like every where else in the civilized world, but upward mobility was severely limited in Southern society. I thought we had a pretty good country after the Civil War, up until about 20 years ago when we lost our free and independent media, War on Poverty and Hollywood s-canned the culture, etc.

[jmacusa]

And we still had slavery too?

[righttackle44]

But South didn’t did they? Got their butts whipped. The end of it.

[rockrr]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

Just for the whiner factor alone ;')

[ought-six]

“What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.”

Whom or what did the South succeed (after all, “succession” follows the root word “succeed). Good God, man; if you can’t get the basic term correct please cease making any comment relative thereto.

[servantboy777]

Yea, we know how well the yankees have handled things in D.C.

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp Grimes Co. Greys. Texas

[Ditto]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

How do you think it would be better?