[capitan_refugio]

"Some people still don't get it, and still don't realize that all the Western States and Territories fought on the wrong side in the Civil War, except for the mining-centered ones like California, Colorado, and Nevada"

The states that fought on the wrong side of the war were the ones that needed Reconstruction.

[nolu chan]

Now the Blue States need reconstruction. Perhaps we should reduce them all to territory status and impose right-thinking Red state government upon them -- for their own good of course -- as they are unable to govern themselves responsibly.