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I love how people here are claiming that slavery was a South thing only.

How little they know

Oh wait, that's right, they were taught to think that slavery was the only issue of the Civil War, and that state's rights was not even talked about at all.

Edit: paged, so here's today's modern form of slavery:

I thought modern slavery involved buying iPhones.

I just hate the south so much....

and nobody cares about stupid rick perry...hell nobody has even mentioned him for twenty six pages....

By the time the Civil War began simmering, however, it was largely a South-only thing.

It was far from the only factor, but it certainly was a very large one. Edit: And let's not forget the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't until 1862, when the war began in 1861 and Lincoln purposefully waited for fear of losing the border states.

That's not to forgive it anywhere in the U.S., or the rest of the world for that matter. It's a reprehensible pracitce.

It does. It's just so insidious that no one knows they're being enslaved.

I'm glad somebody finally admitted it.

people in your office? the voices in your head? I don't see anyone on the forum doing that so.... did you take your meds today?

♫Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So, you and me are through
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So, you and me are through.♫

But again, it was still a major one and intertwined with the others. And as I edited there, it was enough of one that Lincoln feared losing border states over the issue.

A detestable period of American history no matter how you look at it.

That's 4 people so far. Since nobody wants to admit that slavery happened in the North either....

I already explained what you just posted. Dunno where you got that "there was no slavery in the North" when I clearly said the Souths economy depended heavily on the slave plantations. The whole link is a gigantic strawman. People were willing to take up arms because without the value associated in slaves, the wealth of many Southerners would circle the toilet. Lincoln passing Emancipation was a huge middle finger to prominent slave owners and their wealth.

That also meant poor whites who depended on jobs being overseers or otherwise handling slaves went down the tubes. Many of those whites are still poor to this day. When the South collapsed after the war and the subsequent reconstruction, the simmering hatred for the North was for destroying their livelihood and humiliating them into having to stand on 'equal' footing with blacks.

It's also why the Jim Crow mentality was so powerful in the deep South. It's projection of loss amidst a deep sense of superiority to freed slaves. "If we can't lash out against Northerners, we'll make blacks rue the day they threw off their yokes and aspired to be men!"

Somewhere in the minds of some Southerners (and their legacies) is the idea they could have been rich as *** if those Northern pests hadn't tried to interfere with trading human lives to bank a profit. The Civil War is and always will be about slavery, the states rights smokescreen needs slavery to work.

I totally did!

There's a great animated map on Wikipedia, actually, showing the progression of free/slave states in the US.

None of those posts claim slavery was only in the south.

You really need to get some help buddy.

Slavery wasn't ONLY in the South, nobody said that, everyone said it was the main issue. It was the driving force behind tensions on economic issues, it was a major factor in states opposing federal laws, and the list goes on and on.

Let's do a little coherence test...

Man A: There is a mouse in the kitchen.

does that mean...
1. There is a mouse in the kitchen
2. There are mouses ONLY in the kitchen

3. Al Gore is the reason we have mice.

It means there aren't any mice in the north apparently....

Ramyrez doesn't want to admit it, but he's old enough to remember when Beyonce was straight Houston.

He had to look it up, as he really didn't remember.

I don't listen to crap.

(edit:waiting to be told I'm racist for that. I don't like basketball either. Must be racist for sure. *gasp*)

Right so there we go! It has many many meanings, but it can ONLY mean to everyone what it means to you. No other viewpoint will be tolerated!

RACIST. WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST QUEEN BEYONCE!? (and those other two that dont matter)

(The song comes to mind because it was popular when I was but a wee pup... and because it was on at karaoke not too long ago.)

The alternate meanings are regarding Eastern culture which has little if no bearings in the West. Stop being daft, you damn well know how flying a swastika in the West is going to go over.

Just like the idiots who drape themselves in a Confederate flag. You either do it because you're a racist ***, ignorant of the meaning or as a symbol of rebellion against the system.

If the issue was about states rights, don't tread on me (Gadsden flag) is easily available and gets the point across without co-opting a disgusting symbol of the Souths dark past.

Most people consider 1920 (pre nazi germany) the modern world btw...

So before the largest conflict on Earth that irrevocably changed international geopolitics to the present day while also holding one of the largest death tolls in human history? Ok.

Please, fly that swastika high at a Jewish gathering so they can beat the *** out of you. I'm sure everyone will respect your right to fly that symbol of 'peace' and not associate you with the Nazi movement.

...and there we are again. "My view is undeniable, others will not be tolerated."

Stop being a victim. Try being factually correct instead!

I don't play the victim, that's your schtick remember.