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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2015, 04:28:34 PM

Title: Five myths about why the south seceded.
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2015, 04:28:34 PM

Bolded blue was copied from.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths-about-why-the-south-seceded/2011/01/03/ABHr6jD_story.html

That year, the South produced almost 75 percent of all U.S. exports. Slaves were worth more than all the manufacturing companies and railroads in the nation. No elite class in history has ever given up such an immense interest voluntarily.

You see that underlined part DUmmies? The rich are going to get tired of your freeloading off of them.

White Northerners’ fear of freed slaves moving north then caused Republicans to lose the Midwest in the congressional elections of November 1862.

Might be a lesson in there for those that support illegal immigration.

Title: Re: Five myths about why the south seceded.
Post by: Chris_ on July 18, 2015, 05:01:15 PM

Voluntarily?  Whatever they're smoking at the WaPo, I want some.