Would the USA be better today if we had just let the South secede?

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68. The bitterness is due to the backwardness of the Southerners I knew.

I was there pre-60s, pre-integration.

Little did they know that my great-great-grandfather had fought for the Union in the Civil War.

I did not date until I was out of high school (I was a couple of years younger than other students in my high school class).

My experience made me bitter about the racism, the ignorance and the pride in that racism and ignorance that was a daily part of life in the South. I was so happy to return to the North for college, graduate school and real life beyond the limited view from the South.

If Alabama elects Roy Moore, all of America will find out what I am talking about in this post.

Bunch of ignorant, prejudiced folk -- Southerners.

I do wish our Union did not have to put up with them.

Eudora Welty, Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams excepted, of course.