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Old 08-14-2006, 04:49 PM
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Agreed. The civil war was about politics of the northern shipping industry in competition with growing southern industries.
When the railroads opened up the market, the north legislated one restriction after another until the south was forced to officially and legally succeed from the union.
That’s when the north came down and killed everybody. They still wanted the real estate.
This is crap. Hope nobody bought any of this.


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Old 08-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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Civil War, beyond a doubt.

How Important?

Well, per Shelby Foote, prior to that event people used a plural 'are' when referring to The United states.

After 1865, through the present, the singular 'is' has come to define the country.
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Old 08-14-2006, 05:39 PM
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Your a bloody yankee ain't ya, with yer propaganda and lies?! Yeh kilt my kin folks ya dirty rotten yankee! The south will rise again!
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Old 08-14-2006, 05:45 PM
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Funny thing about the ol' 'War Of Northern Aggression' is that in the Deep South (SC, GA, FLA, LA, Miss, Ala, and E. Texas (W. texas was Comanche country back then) it really was a sectional conflict- and not a civil war.

But if you look at the Virginias, Kentucky, and especially Missouri, you will see the true neighbor kills/rapes neighbor tenor that characterizes most internal conflicts.
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Old 08-14-2006, 05:58 PM
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Your a bloody yankee ain't ya, with yer propaganda and lies?! Yeh kilt my kin folks ya dirty rotten yankee! The south will rise again!

I'm not a yankee. I'm the nigga in the field.





I hate ya'll more than ya'll hate the Yankees.


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