[Partisan Gunslinger]

Preserving the Union for the revenues, you mean. If the Southern states and its economy were not the chief bankroller of the Union’s tax base, and were instead a drain on the federal treasury, Lincoln would have said “Bravo!” to secession and “Good riddance!” to the seceding states.

The south an industrial powerhouse? lol

Lincoln was a very, very small man; but his hagiographers immortalized him as some kind of god. Lincoln set the stage for the eventual collapse of the United States as a Constitutional republic. His present-day soulmate, B. Hussein Obama, has completed the task.

Lincoln and Reagan believed a lot of the same things. Hussein likened himself to Reagan also, he's just a liar.

[ought-six]

“The south an industrial powerhouse? lol”

Where, doofus, did I ever mention the term “industrial powerhouse?”

The South, however, was an agricultural powerhouse; and agriculture was a stronger element of the economy in the mid-nineteenth century than industrial output. To whom did the U.S. export industrial goods in the mid-nineteenth century, such that it surpassed the revenues generated by agriculture? Hell, the Northern states in Congress had to pass protectionist laws in order to give Northern industry a hand up.

“Lincoln and Reagan believed a lot of the same things.”

That’s a red herring, and is comparing apples to oranges, because by the time Reagan came around the U.S. had fundamentally changed from what it was in the mid-nineteenth century, such that the U.S. of Reagan’s time hardly resembled the U.S. of Lincoln’s.