[FLT-bird]

The whole country has. The original constitution died at Appamattox and was replaced by one in which the federal government no longer respected any limitations on its own power. The result as Lee predicted, is out of control debts, constant foreign meddling and oppression at home.

[BroJoeK]

"The original constitution died at Appamattox and was replaced by one in which the federal government no longer respected any limitations on its own power."

Southern Democrats had a great hand in that, voting solidly for "Progressives" from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson (twice!) and, outside the Deep South, even that Texas Democrat Pedernales Cowpoke, Lyndon Johnson, in 1964.