Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good:
Certainly, and that goes for both sides. Really, both sides should've lost.
Well if you had to pick a side it would be the north. Imagine a shattered union leading to British or German or Russian Hegonmoney. I shake at the thought.
Those things happened anyway. No foreign power was going to actually take land in the US.
Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good:
Those things happened anyway. No foreign power was going to actually take land in the US.
I mean as a superpower. The north and the south need eachother (and still do)
It's only earned us ruin. Heck, an alternative might not have even lead to WW2.
LittleGrizzly 02:31 02-13-2009
The best thing i can say for the South is state's rights, If the states were more independent then maybe US presidents wouldn't have been able to get away with so much bad stuff... on the flipside you probably could have done as much good stuff either...
I have thought about it a few times... would we be better of if the south won...?
Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good:
It's only earned us ruin. Heck, an alternative might not have even lead to WW2.
If by ruin you mean TEH BEST COUNTRY EVA. Then yes.
Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly:
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I have thought about it a few times... would we be better of if the south won...?
No. Eventually the slavery and feudal like system of the antebellum south would've ended with more blood than before. Blacks were used as boogeyman to keep poor whites (90% of the pop) in there place.
You hear stories of integrated schools and how people were downright scared of the blacks. It comes from all the years of some one telling you these subhumans will destroy all that is good in the world and should be kept under bondage (did we mention make the rich richer? that to!)
Also Texas would've probably broken off and fought another pointless war with Mexico. Our TRUE enemy lol.
LittleGrizzly 02:51 02-13-2009
based purely off assumptions and logic i assumed that system would have been dropped as it was in the north, when the south become more industrialised..
Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly:
based purely off assumptions and logic i assumed that system would have been dropped as it was in the north, when the south become more industrialised..
It was more than the money. It permeated the whole social fabric. Not to mention there are still many places in the south that have no industry.
Look at how the Northeners treated the Irish.
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