[rockrr]

Thank God the right side won in 1865

[quasimodo_79]

Yep!

[LeoWindhorse]

The Yankees and all their legions of straight off the boat German mercenary ‘immigrants’ F um . We should have killed them all. The same Yankee pricks are still screwing things up.

[Professional Engineer]

Thank God the right side won in 1865

You mean the side of big gubmint and centralized control. That side? How’s that working out for you.

[sailor76]

If those men could see how the country turned out, Lincoln wouldn’t have been able to field a Platoon.

[x]

We become a second rate power if we split up now, and a third rate power if a Civil War splits us apart.

Some Californians are tuned into DiogenesLamp's way of thinking: that somehow they'd be on top of the world if only they could leave the union.

On top of all California's other problems, their wealth depends a lot on the US muscling other countries to enforce our copyright laws.

Without the US having all that power, much of California's wealth would melt away, just as the cotton kingdom's would have when cotton prices fell.