I knew we could count on you coming along and invoking your favorite boogieman, Abraham Lincoln.
As well as toss out a few of your odd-ball ideas.
There is no reason to think 3 countries all of which were products of Britain, could not have gotten along just fine, traded with each other and prospered. The US and Canada have done so for over 200 years.
The U.S. and Canada didn't fight a protracted and bloody rebellion before separating. And as far as I know there are no Canadian equivalent of Lost Causers keeping acrimony alive. Had the South won their rebellion there is no reason to believe there wouldn't have been additional conflicts between the two. Hard feelings would have continue for God knows how long. Perhaps till today.
I knew we could count on you and like an impudent child try to start a mudslinging contest. I hardly mentioned Lincoln. The conversation wasn't really about that - as you know.
As well as toss out a few of your odd-ball ideas.
Ideas that are so "odd-ball" that almost half of Americans seem to agree given current opinion polls on the subject.
The U.S. and Canada didn't fight a protracted and bloody rebellion before separating. And as far as I know there are no Canadian equivalent of Lost Causers keeping acrimony alive. Had the South won their rebellion there is no reason to believe there wouldn't have been additional conflicts between the two. Hard feelings would have continue for God knows how long. Perhaps till today.
There was no "rebellion". I never mentioned any "lost cause" as you PC Revisionists like to call it. Hell, I didn't even mention PC Revisionists. We are talking about the present. As for your claims that just because there was a war of Independence that means the two sides would have continued to be at loggerheads, I would point out the history of Britian (and Canada) vis a vis the US does not bear out this claim. The two sides would have had plenty of reasons to cooperate and have productive relations.
Well, that's because the Canadians kicked the US's @$$ when we tried to invade them. Also, when the US and Canada separated, the US was too weak to bully them. Things were different "four score and seven years" later.
Had the South won their rebellion...
Wasn't a "rebellion." That is a lie. They had a right to leave and exercising a right to leave is not "rebellion."