[Bulwyf]

That’s a valid point, same reason they hang Che on the walls too.

I don’t understand how any Constitution believing Conservatives can think that the civil war had a good outcome.

[cowboyusa]

Saving the Union was more important.

[Mollypitcher1]

I agree.

[BroJoeK]

Bulwyf: "I don’t understand how any Constitution believing Conservatives can think that the civil war had a good outcome."

Well, we could start here:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...

...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

By 1872 the passage of 13th, 14th & 15th amendments added millions of previously disenfranchised voters.

[BrandtMichaels]

THINK - Without the United States remaining united how could that have changed the outcomes for WW I & II? Much more for the worst of outcomes I fear even though Reagan and Trump may only be delaying the inevitable...