Yeah, because human nature has changed so dramitically since then. Get back to me when you have something more substantive.
Of course the American voter and American people have changed since the 1850s, look at the 2012 presidential election and imagine the American voters of the 1850s leading to those issues, those candidates, or anything remotely similar.
We wouldn’t be involved in most of what politics is about today if the politicians and the voters were the same today as then, that is one of the things that fascinates us about Texas, it still echoes some of that era of American men.
Your idea that the modern democrat coalition is willing to fight to the death with the destruction of their homes and families and cities over some separation that they won’t even understand, is silly, San Francisco and Detroit and Boston, are not looking to fight WWIII on their own soil, with their own lives, against their fellow American.