[andy_card]

only about 5 percent of southrons actually owned slaves. the average southron soldier had GROSS PERSONAL ASSETS of less than 25 dollars.

Your argument, insofar as you have one, seems based on the premise that Southern rebels acted rationally. The sad fact is that humans don't always behave rationally, as is admirably reflected by your bizarre and transcendent hatred for the United States. The Southern armies were fighting in the interests of the great planters, speculators, and slave merchants, not for themselves or for any coherent rational reason.

[stand watie]

this post of yours, in a single word, is SILLY!

i have NO hatred for the USA. ask around FR, you'll find i've spent my time on the "freep line". that said, i DO favor FREEDOM for dixie, as many southron freepers do.

foree dixie,sw