[nathanbedford]

That doesn’t impress me.

Believe it or not, that is not the purpose of my posting here, I would venture it is not the purpose of most people who post here. My purpose is to express arguments supported by reason, example, and history. I deplore, as I said in a previous reply in this thread, the practice of substituting the ad hominem for reasoned argument on the merits.

[jmacusa]

I have been around this debate with Lost Cuaser’s more times than I can count. There is NOTHING to argue. Southern racists and slave owners , The Fire Eaters, tore the nation apart in a violent secession in order to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor and lost. It wasn't "The War Of Northern Aggression'' and it wasn't 'The War For Southern Independence''.