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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Jun 9, 2015, 03:02 PM Jun 2015

Sound familiar?

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Sound familiar? (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2015 OP

K&R 2banon Jun 2015 #1

Like most other wars, bvar22 Jun 2015 #2

/\_/\_This right here_/\_/\ Scuba Jun 2015 #3

The graphic is simplistic and doltish. boston bean Jun 2015 #4

It's a misleading statistic, though. surrealAmerican Jun 2015 #5

2banon

(7,321 posts)

1. K&R

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Tue Jun 9, 2015, 03:05 PM

Jun 2015

bvar22

(39,909 posts)

2. Like most other wars,

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2015, 06:17 PM

Jun 2015

...our Civil War fought by the peasant class to enrich the already rich.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. /\_/\_This right here_/\_/\

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Wed Jun 10, 2015, 07:22 AM

Jun 2015

boston bean

(36,221 posts)

4. The graphic is simplistic and doltish.

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Wed Jun 10, 2015, 07:28 AM

Jun 2015

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)

5. It's a misleading statistic, though.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 07:33 AM

Jun 2015

The percentage of US citizens would include people in the free states, which had higher populations than the slave states. What we want to see for this comparison is the percentage of slave owners in the states that seceded.

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