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To: Timocrat
A group of southern states tried this in the 19th Century and were invaded by a group of northern states who wanted the southern states to buy their tariff protected expensive industrial goods.

Are southerners just sore losers?

48 posted on 08/29/2007 10:32:31 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Are southerners just sore losers?

Southerners at that time made the mistake of thinking that the populations of the northern states could A. Read and B. Understand the US Constitution. A mistake the present Southerners are unlikely to repeat.

50 posted on 08/29/2007 11:18:41 AM PDT by Timocrat (I Emanate on your Auras and Penumbras Mr Blackmun)
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