Will the Civil war be back?

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11. Oh, pleeeezzzzz. The South wasn't a foreign country and it wasn't like Germany was...

later on. The South and the North were countrymen, both belonging to the same country. Until the war, when some states tried to secede. Then the two halves became like separate countries. From the south's point of view, it was the north that was "foreign," using your reasoning.

The people in the two halves were sometimes related biologically, they traveled to each other's states, they did business together. The north profited much from the low prices of the products in the south from the awful slavery business. Most people in the north and the south weren't involved in the politics of the war, and didn't care. They were just ordinary people trying to eek out a living. In the south, the working poor and farmers were drafted. In the north, the wealthy people paid immigrants and other poor people to replace them in the draft.

Another President and Congress may well have let the southerners secede. Who can say how that would've worked out? Canada is another country, and we get along fine with it.