teapartysamurai
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No, Southerners fought for what they believed in and I would praise Southerners if I were you for they have sacrificed themselves in large numbers for your freedoms. You see, Southerners make up just 25% of the population yet accounted for 31% of the troops in WW1, 35% in WW2 and Korea, and a whopping 39% in Vietnam. You owe Southerners your gratitude.
What those Southernors believed in fighting for the Confederacy was wrong.
I don't see it as "right" or "wrong". It's just history. Our country came out of the end of the civil war better for it. It's an abysmal mark on our record that we put a race of people in chains for 200 years, but eventually we remedied the problem on our own at the cost 1 million lives.
And our country was fundamentally changed. We went from an agrarian, decentralized nation to an industrial, federal system.
And that would be the model that allowed us to emerge as a superpower.
Did the Southern states have the right to secede. Yes they did.
Were they wrong for keeping slaves. ABSOLUTELY!
We can debate until Kingdom Come whether or not Lincoln should have preserved the Union.
But I think the 20th Century would have gone a lot worse had that strong Union not been there to fight the German and the Japanese in WWII. England would not have lasted forever.
The South wanted to secede because greedy plantation owners wanted to keep the supply of free labor.
We have the same problem today with illegal aliens. We are told it's compassionate to allow illegals in and let businesses exploit them with low wages at the expense of American workers.
Under the same argument I can see plantation owners telling us it was compassionate to ship slaves here, rather than letting them live in "poverty" in Africa.
It's the same crap all over again. Same pattern.