And you are probably only alive because of Adolf Hitler. (I am.) So what?
I would deny your basic premise that one is automatically better off having been born in the country of Abraham Lincoln than in the one of Thomas Jefferson. (They're quite different, you know.)
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Yet again, you are choosing not to answer the question. I was not asking about Lincoln vs Jefferson. I was asking about a UNITED States Of America as opposed to a CSA and USA existing simultaneously.
We, as a nation, are better off today (although not perfect) since the south lost.