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what was that bloodless transistion of power, circa 1860 thing called... oh yeah... the civil war... not even two centuries... yet. try using the word DECADES, until we get at least two centuries under our belt...

It was the War Between the States - it did not qualify as a "civil war" as it was not about who would be in power but about secession.

I was talking about our elections and how we have had almost totally peaceful transitions of power.

it did not qualify as a "civil war"

there are quite a few folks, who might disagree with you.
about it being a civil war... and the "peaceful" transition of power... heh heh...

Shows to what extent some folks will go, just to keep from admitting they were WRONG about CENTURIES of power being transferred... without violence.

We HAVE had peaceful transtions of power since the election and overthrow of jefferson davis and the south ... "without violence" but it has not been centuries. . . and our transition of power from England was not peaceful either. BUT, it has been BARELY two centuries... and if "at gunpoint" with hundreds of thousands of dead americans in Circa 1860 is not a civil war, and constitutes a "peaceful election and transition of power..." I will literally eat your hat.

Funny all these books I have on the history of the "civil war" are wrong... and YOU are right. It wasn't a Civil War after all. Priceless.