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To: Agnes Heep
"What's revisionist is the attempt by some to whitewash the realities of that causation by the insistence that it was "states rights" or "tariffs" that drove the southern states to secession. "States rights" gets double-duty as a code-word for slavery in the 1800s and segregation in the 1900s."

Here you go again - talking sh*t as always.

A State's Right of Self-Determination is what was the driving force behind the Secession of the Southern States in 1860 - 61. Whether the issue was freeing slaves, or tariffs, the basic premise was that Washington DC (or other States) could not direct the Southern States as to what they were supposed to do. It was up to each State to determine the fate of its own domestic institutions (i.e. SLAVERY) and how its money was to be spent. Refer to the ORIGINAL INTENT of the Founding Fathers! Once again, go back and read the Federalist Papers and the Constitutional debates. Learn something other than the tripe you're spewing then come back and discuss things intelligently, not like some mindless robot who can only puppet the party line.

70 posted on 02/18/2004 10:28:00 AM PST by Colt .45 (Cold War, Vietnam Era, Desert Storm Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry!)
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To: Colt .45
A State's Right of Self-Determination is what was the driving force behind the Secession of the Southern States in 1860 - 61.

And it was just the same thing for segregation. "Don't try to tell us that we can't force our n*****rs to the back of the bus."

73 posted on 02/18/2004 12:01:40 PM PST by Agnes Heep
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