Which state will threaten to secede first

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94. War and Christianity

Losing the Civil War still burns the South. Much of the anti "Big Government" anger can be traced directly to folks who lived through that war. It wasn't that long ago, really. My great grandpa was born around 1860 and lived into his late 80s. While I never knew him, my dad (born in 1933) knew him well. The old guy was a solid secessionist, and was rumored to be a clansman. As my dad grew up, he was removed enough (by time) from that influence that he seemed a decent guy, but in his old age his earliest influences must have taken hold, and he's now as much a racist as his grandfather. The victory of the North over the South gave racists an excuse for their hate. They weren't racists, you see, they were freedom fighters, forced to submit to an oppressive Federal Government. It's easier to hang onto that rage, it isn't as socially impolite.

Christianity also plays into it -and most of that is focused on us through the abortion debate. Some religious followers are seriously concerned about abortion as a right to life issue, but in my opinion, most are just interested in pursuing more and more theocratic controls over our political system.

These are fights most of us thought were settled - the Civil War in 1865, and the Church/State issue when Americans wrote the Constitution, but I think we were being naive. We left creepers in the soil, and the weeds are returning.