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If we are describing the white species the above statement is a oxymoron.
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jealous of our way of life
Goodness who would be jealous of a way of life that was the model for the world, well at least the world of Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa.
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We can go on 200 more years and we will still have a better way of life than most of the rest of the United States because we were brought up right to mind our own business and not go slinging mud at other people.
Oh puleeze Scarlet, isn't it time to drop the oh so offended southern belle routine?
Every time I see a thread like this it makes me so thankful that my ancestors were fine Christian Southerners. All these years and some of you are still jealous of our way of life and want to still attack it. We can go on 200 more years and we will still have a better way of life than most of the rest of the United States because we were brought up right to mind our own business and not go slinging mud at other people.
The south was wrong. In addition to the immorality of slavery, the economic system the south was running was a quasi feudal era relic. They were ardently opposed to the institution of wage labor capitalism which allowed the North to industrialize and utterly crush them.
It is as simple as that, the south was fighting against modernity itself and modernity won.
Correct. The reality is, if they had been allowed to continue slavery, and stand alone, the Confederate States would have the economy now of a third world, small country.
I have a huge plethora of quotations directly from the mouths of the southern leaders themselves. Too bad for you that the evidence is written in stone. All you have is an unmoving anecdote.
So high tariffs are worse than slavery?
But they didn't fight for individual rights. Scratch that - they fought for their own rights against the horrors of tariffs and taxes, but paid no heed to the millions of people in horrible bondage, suffering far worse than they ever would.
Yeah, cry me a river.
"So high tariffs are worse than slavery?"
You know, it's frustrating enough when people don't stick to the topic. But it's doubly so when it's your own topic. You're the one who started this debate. Why don't you try sticking to it? Let's see...start a debate on one topic, someone replies disagreeing with it, you respond with emotional appeals unrelated to the topic...I'm going to guess you're a Democrat.
Correct. The reality is, if they had been allowed to continue slavery, and stand alone, the Confederate States would have the economy now of a third world, small country.
Yes, if left to their own devices they would probably be akin to places like Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Yemen etc. that kept slavery well into the 20th century. The fact is slavery and capitalism cannot co-exist because a wage labor economy is central to the latter and without at least some amount of capitalism there is a limit to how much of an economy you can have.
Of course this fundamental economic weakness at the core of the south was why the pretty much lost as soon as they fired on Fort Sumter.
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A footnote in history according to you limited brain,yet you insist on making a brand new thread on something that's been brought up DOZENS of times here....makes perfect sense.
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