[Eleutheria5]

I'm a born damyankee, too, but lived enough in Georgia to consider myself somewhat Southern as well. Hard to say Lincoln "broke" the Constitution since it had no provisions covering a disintegration of the Union. But he did, in the course of preserving that Union, many tyrannical things that the Founders would have forbidden had they had the fore-thought. Slavery was an unworthy cause for the South, but states' rights are a real issue to this day, and once again the Democrats are on the wrong side of it. Here's the Greek motto I promised: ο'υτωσ α'ει τυρανιοισ. Means the same as the Latin, more concise, not associated with Booth.

[Reily]

“...Slavery was an unworthy cause for the South, but states’ rights are a real issue to this day, and once again the Democrats are on the wrong side of it. ...”

I had a Civil War history professor phrase it regarding states rights & slavery - “Right principle, wrong application !”