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To Non-Sequitur... SHUT UP! (Non-Sequitur has absolutely nothing better to do than constantly monitor FR for any posting, whether tongue in cheek or not, to inject his hateful crap. Post something Civil War related and he/she is there with their ignorance within 5 minutes)

Tongue in cheek? Is that what you call it? I'd think it leans more towards the stupid, IMHO of course, and I wouldn't quit my day job for a career as a comedian if I where you. But even in jest you talk of uprooting and expelling several hundred thousand people once you are done with them and I'm the one spouting 'hateful crap'.

Cut NonSensical some slack. He's still fighting the Supreme Court decision that states have the right to secede from the Union. Truth is, the Court never ruled on that case -- a no decision is a yes in my book. (Some day this issue will be reintroduced to the SCOTUS.) But, NS can't help it if she/he/it's ("shits" for short) obsessed.

I did like your theory, not that it could have happened, but it would have been the biggest display of hypocracy of ever witnessed. Of course, the other way in which the war could have been avoided would have been if the US had have removed its troops from sovereign states, especially South Carolina.