[WhiskeyPapa]

If the north simply "put up with" the south out of necessity, which implies that they would have been happier without it if they could, why did they fight tooth and nail to keep it the second the possibility of ridding themselves of it became a reality?

To prove that representative government could work, of course.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

To prove that representative government could work, of course.

...which they did not do. Instead, one section of the country denied the right of self government to the other by way of force thereby destroying its existence in both.

[Aurelius]

"To prove that representative government could work, of course."

I look in on this forum now and then to see if anything has changed, and one thing that seems to be eternally unchangable is you. You are forever posting the same nonsense.