[ClearCase_guy]

"The South won in peace what it lost on the battlefield," Gordon said.

That explains it! I've always wondered why slavery was still legal in the US and why states' rights always trumped anything at the federal level. I'm so glad the nice astrophysicist cleared that up.

[WhiskeyPapa]

"The South won in peace what it lost on the battlefield," Gordon said.

That explains it! I've always wondered why slavery was still legal in the US and why states' rights always trumped anything at the federal level. I'm so glad the nice astrophysicist cleared that up.

He means that blacks had almost as few civil rights after the war as they had prior.

Glad to clear that up.

Walt

[iconoclast]

That explains it! I've always wondered why slavery was still legal in the US and why states' rights always trumped anything at the federal level.

Ahh ... another ANTI-states-rights "conservative" heard from!