[KoRn]

I look at the War Between the States as the beginning of our end as a country. It marked the death of the country that our Founders started, and the birth of the country that is in serious decline today.

[EternalVigilance]

I look at the War Between the States as the beginning of our end as a country. It marked the death of the country that our Founders started, and the birth of the country that is in serious decline today.

If you're right, all I can say is that it's a hell of a thing to sacrifice for an imagined "right" to enslave other human beings.

[Happy Rain]

You are correct—in 1861,like 1776,a dozen or so sovereign states again tried to exit another hostile tyranny and in the process gave birth to an almighty Federal government more than willing to rape murder and burn them back into line.
Don't get me wrong,I'm glad the South lost because of the great country we all love that emerged—well, til now anyway.
It's just the domestic precedent of the big all powerful central government the damn Yankees invented to destroy the Southern patriot that many of us can't forgive.