[Demiurge2]

The thesis seems a bit weak, but I’ve often thought that the US Civil War saw the Confederacy as a final gasp of the original American nation as launched in 1776 vs. a wholly new, industrial, Northern structure that grew out of the later U.S. Constitution.

[DiogenesLamp]

The thesis seems a bit weak, but I’ve often thought that the US Civil War saw the Confederacy as a final gasp of the original American nation as launched in 1776 vs. a wholly new, industrial, Northern structure that grew out of the later U.S. Constitution.

Yes. Lincoln certainly took the nation in a new direction. A more fascist one with the central government controlling everything.