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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. He also doesn't seem to understand
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 12:15 PM
Mar 2019

that the Civil War was one of the first modern wars based on an industrialized Northern army. The North had progressed more rapidly with industrialization, while the south was largely a rural agrarian society leveraged on slave labor. The south was unwilling to free black slaves and conscript them into their army, and not for no reason.

Steve King is a fool.

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