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To: central_va
Brought about by Northern taxation, tariffs and hypocrisy:

Nonsense.

What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery. -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention

Without the South, the USA would be a Socialist Marxist Country by now.

Without the rest of the country, the confederacy would be a totalitarian police state with socialist leanings by now.

12 posted on 09/17/2010 5:39:37 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
"Without the rest of the country, the confederacy would be a totalitarian police state with socialist leanings by now."

I want some of what you're smoking, FRiend. C'mon, pass that doobie.

16 posted on 09/17/2010 6:06:45 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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