The Civil War parallels today so well. While doing some research for another project, I discovered that the rat mayor of New York City offered the Confederacy NYC as part of its territory. Jeff Davis said “Thanks but no thanks.” Nice stand up people, these Democrats.
“While doing some research for another project, I discovered that the rat mayor of New York City offered the Confederacy NYC as part of its territory.”
That’s not accurate. What the city leadership of NYC did, though, is propose to secede from the Union and become an “open city,” not taking any side in the conflict, but rather becoming not just the main North American trade port but also the premier clearinghouse trade city. In a nutshell, NYC wanted to become stinking rich over the conflict. The proposal enjoyed some popular support, but never really got off the ground.