"Your knowledge of history is an absolute joke. All the census material gathered before the CW says so. I suggest you read Helper's little study on that. He was a southern gentleman who was no where near as ignorant as your are of the abosulute farce of southern slavery. The key to the collapse of the south was that it made work, for the majority of poor white southerners, a thing to be avoided. It should be no surprise that the states of the south in particular have never paid their way from day one of this country, neither could they ever repay the money they have sucked out of the states where any form of work was considered an honorable activity instead of a mark of social inferiority." Ah, the light dawns--a South-hater. I didn't mention ONE SYLLABLE about slavery--you pulled THAT out of your own anus (after removing your head, I guess). You can stick it back there, now (your head, that is).