[Bubba Ho-Tep]

actually I would have joined the P.A.C.S. just on republican (little r) principles.

In other words, you'd have been a traitor, not just to your country but to your state.

[central_va]

In other words, you'd have been a traitor, not just to your country but to your state.

I may have been a traitor in your eyes, but I would have been fighting for what I believe in, (little r) republican values. Look where we are now. I am not a Yankee (thank you God) so this is moot anyway. I give up trying to understand the motives of the Federalist/Statist Yankee of the 19th century. It is just impossible for me to fathom.