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View Poll Results: Should Texas keep "Confederate Heroes Day" as a state holiday?
Yes 19 28.36%
No 48 71.64%
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-22-2022, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I[...]Gloating because the Southern states were forced to stay in a Union they no longer wanted.. [...]
Replace 'stay in a union they no longer wanted' with 'give up their slaves'. That was the only real driver for their dissatisfaction with the Union.
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Old 01-22-2022, 04:51 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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America... love it or leave it. Guess the confeds took that to heart.
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Old 01-22-2022, 05:01 PM
 
Location: Southeast Arizona
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Do you know why they were financially destroyed?
Because their slaves were freed
Take a look how much in billions, in 1860s money that cost.

In todays money it would be in the low trillions, it was 3 billion in 1860.

If that happened today it’d be worse than 1929 and 2008 combined.
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Old 01-22-2022, 05:11 PM
 
Location: WA
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Replace 'stay in a union they no longer wanted' with 'give up their slaves'. That was the only real driver for their dissatisfaction with the Union.
In point of fact, abolition wasn't really a cause of the civil war. At the war's start there were no serious proposals for abolition. That would have required a constitutional amendment that would have been impossible to pass as long as the Confederate states remained in the union. It was not until they left that it was possible for Lincoln to pass the 13th Amendment and even then, only just barely. By walking out of the union they made abolition possible.

Confederate states were fighting about westward expansion of slavery into free states like Kansas. And seeking to regulate the conduct of free states through laws like the fugitive slave act. They didn't just want to maintain slavery. They wanted to expand it, and force the rest of the country to help them maintain their slave empires.

If the Confederate states had been content to simply maintain slavery within their own borders and not try to expand it then there would have been no Civil War.

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Old 01-22-2022, 05:21 PM
 
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Take a look how much in billions, in 1860s money that cost.

In todays money it would be in the low trillions, it was 3 billion in 1860.

If that happened today it’d be worse than 1929 and 2008 combined.
Don’t want to lose money when slaves are freed?
Don’t buy slaves
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Old 01-22-2022, 05:56 PM
 
Location: 78745
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Take a look how much in billions, in 1860s money that cost.

In todays money it would be in the low trillions, it was 3 billion in 1860.

If that happened today it’d be worse than 1929 and 2008 combined.
But weren't the Southern slave-owners given reparation$?
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Old 01-22-2022, 06:08 PM
 
Location: WA
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But weren't the Southern slave-owners given reparation$?
No.

Well, in 1862 when slaves in Washington DC were emancipated the local Washington DC slaveholders were given Federal reparations.

But slaveholders in the Confederate states got no reparations after losing the Civil War. That notion would have been inconceivable to the Union states who won the war at such tremendous cost and who controlled the post-war Congress.
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Old 01-22-2022, 06:45 PM
 
Location: 78745
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No.

Well, in 1862 when slaves in Washington DC were emancipated the local Washington DC slaveholders were given Federal reparations.

But slaveholders in the Confederate states got no reparations after losing the Civil War. That notion would have been inconceivable to the Union states who won the war at such tremendous cost and who controlled the post-war Congress.
That's good to hear. I had heard they did but I didn't know for sure.
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Old 01-22-2022, 08:13 PM
 
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Replace 'stay in a union they no longer wanted' with 'give up their slaves'. That was the only real driver for their dissatisfaction with the Union.
If you believe secession was solely about defending slavery.. why would you (et al) be celebrating (& gloating about) the fact that those slave-owners were forced to remain your countrymen ?

This was the question I was originally addressing.. why do modern haters of the Confederacy celebrate the subjugation of the Southern states. If you (et al) hate the Confederates so much.. why is it good news that they were forced to stay as Americans. I never hear this question sincerely answered. Debating the causes of secession is a different issue, than modern Americans calling Confederates 'losers', out of one side of their mouths. But then celebrating the fact that these (supposedly detestable) Southern 'losers' were kept as countrymen. If you're game, how do you reconcile that seeming contradiction (?)
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Old 01-22-2022, 08:44 PM
 
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If you believe secession was solely about defending slavery.. why would you (et al) be celebrating (& gloating about) the fact that those slave-owners were forced to remain your countrymen ?
Anybody that considers themselves a confederate, should leave this country that “hates them”.

Now go ahead and explain why people today celebrate and glorify traitors that believed in slavery and didn’t want to be part of America.
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