Some of you are fond of promoting the fake ideal that we live with the Civil War and/or its aftermath in profound ways today.
We do not. The Civil War came, it went, and it was influential for a decade or 3 tops. After that, CW lost all relevance whatsoever. It’s just a footnote in books, nothing more.
We live with the aftermath of World War I and we have lived with this boat anchor for over 100 years. Progressivism is America’s Cancer.
The current order is based upon WWII and the US plan.
For some of us, the Civil War and the Revolution both are part of our family history and influence what we think.
Your indifference inclines me to believe that neither involved the ProgressingAmerica clan.
We do not. The Civil War came, it went, and it was influential for a decade or 3 tops. After that, CW lost all relevance whatsoever. It’s just a footnote in books, nothing more.
Anchor babies.
Also Abortion and Gay marriage.
The Civil War came, it went, and it was influential for a decade or 3 tops.
Before the Civil War we had no large standing Federal army.
Before the Civil War we had no unapportioned Federal income tax. Before the Civil War we had no Internal Revenue Bureau, later renamed to the Internal Revenue Service, to enforce the unapportioned Federal income tax.
Before the Civil War we did not have greenbacks.
Before the Civil War, the sovereign States decided who were, and were not, citizens of the State. The path to becoming naturalized into a United States citizen flowed through becoming a citizen of a State.
Post Civil War, the Federal government was able to progress into the current Federal leviathan. That's progressing America for ya.