Civil War: Slavery or Self Gov't?

[Joanne98]

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South Carolina had once set the stage for the Civil War will now hold a secessionist ball, and a ten day reenactment of the Confederate encampment at Fort Sumter. NAACP says, this is 'nothing more than a celebration of slavery.' American Prospect's Jamelle Bouie weighs in.

[Can of Whoop-ass]

1. Git 'em

Trouce their asses agin, Jethro!

[zanana1]

2. You're kidding me, right? nt

[sulphurdunn]

3. Whatever rationale neo-confedrates

wish to espouse for their treason and the deaths of 600,000 people doesn't change the fact that their fathers surrendered, furled their banners and went home. They then reneged on every agreement of that surrender they could with complete disregard for their word. That their ancestors would take pride in this treason and oath breaking explains more about them and their phony sense of honor than all their antebellum balls and the waving of defeated banners ever could.

The Confederacy must never be allowed to rise again in whatever shape change it tries to employ.

[happyslug]

4. It took the British 200years and industrialization to get over their Civil War

One historian I read compared election results in the 1860s with who fought for the King or Parliament during the English Civil War (1640-1649). With increased urbanization in the 1800s the country finally changed (and the raise of the Labor Unions and later the Labour Party had a huge affect on who voted for whom). Some of the election results was that Britain had a habit of NOT redistricting its election districts (By 1800 Birmingham was clearly the second largest city in Britain but had no vote on any member of Parliament, while Medieval Boroughs, long de-populated would continue to have one, these were referred to a "Rotten Boroughs" for no one lived in those Boroughs by the 1700s so the landowner ended up being the only voter for the Borough's member of Parliament).

Just a comment on how long it took Britain to overcome its Civil War, and we are NOT even at the 200th anniversary yet of the US Civil War.