[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Your reading comprehension is suffering. I stated "women and blacks generally could not vote in the northern states" at the outset of the Civil War. You have yet to prove otherwise."

And my original statement had to do with blacks not being allowed to vote for the secession and how the vote may have been different. That was my original point that you responded to. You are the one with a lack of reading comprehension. More likely willfull ignorance because you want to somehow justify the South's position vis a vis the Civil War. Blame it all on Lincoln and the North. Welcome to Ron Paul's world.

[conimbricenses]

Don't dance around the issue. I posted a carefully qualified statement that "women and blacks generally could not vote" before the Civil War, and you misrepresented it as stating incorrectly that NO blacks could vote before the Civil War.

I do not know whether you did so willfully or by accident, but the fact remains you did. The polite thing to do now would be to apologize and move on, but I have a feeling that you will likely take another route. Probably out of stubborn incorrigibility, thus proving that you do not come into this discussion seeking to advance your understanding of a topic but rather to brow beat a point, even if that point is factually in error.