[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!

[ClearCase_guy]

>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!

I'm sorry I confused you with sarcasm.

Slavery is not legal in the US now. I take this as evidence that the South lost.

States' rights do not trump anything at the federal level. I take this as evidence that the south lost.

I'm trying to state that the current facts speak against this "historian"'s claim that the South won during the peace what they lost during the war.

I don't know why you percieve this as being anti-States' Rights on my part.