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

[Sophia4]

125. Actually, I now live in California lived in Europe for years.

I'm happy to hear you say that the South is beginning to wise up, but it has been 50 some years since I lived there, and far too many Southerners still defend the Confederate flag and the statues of the military honchos who led them to defeat in the Civil War. My ancestors fought and died for the Union and against slavery in the Civil War. And too many Southerners, in their hearts, are still fighting that war.

It has been only 70 some years since WWII, but having lived in Germany and Austria, I can tell you that the Germans and Austrians have left their NAZI pasts behind to a far, far greater extent than Southerners have left their antebellum, slavery culture behind.

It's very sad.

I'm glad to see that very slow progress is being made. The South is holding the entire country back. And the Midwest and some Northern states are falling into the same conservative trap.