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JoeyT

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11. Yeah, they try to hide it behind a towering wall of bullshit.

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #10)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:53 AM

Nov 2012

"Secession was about state's rights!" kind of stuff. Which is true, in the absolute broadest sense of the phrase. It was about the "right" of states to insist it was ok to own another human being.

But yeah, the ones that aren't absolute fabrications boil down to not wanting to give up slavery.

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Liberal/Democratic Victory= Southern Secession/Civil War? [View all] the Weird Liberal Nov 2012 OP

I wonder if the South just never got over Blue4Texas Nov 2012 #1

Stop wondering Actionman Nov 2012 #2

You're right and I was wondering Blue4Texas Nov 2012 #5

Why not? zbdent Nov 2012 #3

What to know just HOW out of their minds? HockeyMom Nov 2012 #4

The wording of the petition shows the intelligence level of the TeaThugs that wrote it. AAO Nov 2012 #6

I became friends Stellarblue Nov 2012 #7

Idiots call it that. JoeyT Nov 2012 #8

Almost every secessionist state issued a 'causes for secession' article at the legislature level. AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #10

Yeah, they try to hide it behind a towering wall of bullshit. JoeyT Nov 2012 #11

In the history books I read, the South fired first. AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #9

What many forget... GTurck Nov 2012 #12

I am tired of the goofy on both sides. Meh. marble falls Nov 2012 #13