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Quote from: "cc la femme"That's true, but whatever the lying prog media say something is,   its minions believe it as seen everywhere .. and make it their cause de jour



PC has become powerful through distortion and outright deception. It has gotten to the point where whatever rot  PC puts into its mind is "true"



PC control of the MSM runs your country and ours ... even determines elections  . Orwell's nightmare come true and "thought police" is no more just an expression



This politically and PC driven scam is just one example of 1,000s. Tomorrow there will be new things we never imagined today ... tomorrows   cause(s) de jour

Quote from: "Shen Li"In some ways I like the Confederate flag. I sure as fuck don't mean the white trash KKK lunacy. To me it represents rebellion. Basically giving the middle finger to the massive beast we call the state.

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Quote from: "Shen Li"In some ways I like the Confederate flag. I sure as fuck don't mean the white trash KKK lunacy. To me it represents rebellion. Basically giving the middle finger to the massive beast we call the state.

I agree with you 100 percent on that.



Couple in the fact that slavery wasn't a real issue for succession after all other avenues were exhausted and the North still wanted to economically benefit from slavery prior to Civil War outbreak, the finger should ALWAYS remain.



Fuck the State.

QuoteIn the spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65). The election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired.



In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country's northern and southern regions. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South's economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco. Growing abolitionist sentiment in the North after the 1830s and northern opposition to slavery's extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in america–and thus the backbone of their economy–was in danger.



In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which essentially opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. Pro- and anti-slavery forces struggled violently in "Bleeding Kansas," while opposition to the act in the North led to the formation of the Republican Party, a new political entity based on the principle of opposing slavery's extension into the western territories. After the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case (1857) confirmed the legality of slavery in the territories, the abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 convinced more and more southerners that their northern neighbors were bent on the destruction of the "peculiar institution" that sustained them. Lincoln's election in November 1860 was the final straw, and within three months seven southern states–South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas–had seceded from the United States.



//http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history

Quote from: "Romero"Funny how every history reference knows that slavery was a major reason for the civil war.

QuoteIn the spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65). The election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired.



In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country's northern and southern regions. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South's economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco. Growing abolitionist sentiment in the North after the 1830s and northern opposition to slavery's extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in america–and thus the backbone of their economy–was in danger.



In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which essentially opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. Pro- and anti-slavery forces struggled violently in "Bleeding Kansas," while opposition to the act in the North led to the formation of the Republican Party, a new political entity based on the principle of opposing slavery's extension into the western territories. After the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case (1857) confirmed the legality of slavery in the territories, the abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 convinced more and more southerners that their northern neighbors were bent on the destruction of the "peculiar institution" that sustained them. Lincoln's election in November 1860 was the final straw, and within three months seven southern states–South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas–had seceded from the United States.



//http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history

That didn't happen???

Quote from: "Romero"So there was no Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas", Dred Scott case or formation of the Republican Party? And I suppose the southern states didn't actually secede, and I suppose there was actually no slavery in the south at all!



Being ignorant of history can't change history.

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Quote from: "Romero"So there was no Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas", Dred Scott case or formation of the Republican Party? And I suppose the southern states didn't actually secede, and I suppose there was actually no slavery in the south at all!



Being ignorant of history can't change history.

If you care to discuss the Whig Party, go for it.



Calling anyone else ignorant of the historical facts, well, you clamp down on that dick with buttocks apart and with a zany sense of imbalance and morbid fear of lubrication factors.

Quote from: "RW"I'll happily accept a source that says slavery wasn't a major issue in the civil war should someone choose to provide one ... Kiebers....