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[MrRsnyder717]

@TheEvilmunkie Think of Mexicans. Mexico is a stupid, backwards country and its inhabitants are overly macho losers who cant read and write, and they are a weak nation. Same with the South and Southerners. Mexico and the South was built on an economic system of plantations, one rich landowner and a shitload of dumb peasants.

[MrRsnyder717]

@TheEvilmunkie The only revisionist history is the one being told by confederate sympathizers, who feel they have some sort of nugget of hidden truth and that the history books have lied and blah blah blah. Every pro-confederate I've spoken with is a moron and knows little of what actually happened. Ironically, they are the ones brainwashed-- not the rest of the country whom they accuse.

[MrRsnyder717]

@TheEvilmunkie No, its not an interpretation. Read more of Lincoln's quotes before he was president, when he gave speeches as head of the Whig Party. He says straight up that "the negros' mental faculties are just as efficient as ours." Point being, Lincoln despised slavery. As president, sure, he was more concerned with preserving the uniion. Still, he was right, and the South was wrong-- morally, economically, politically, and otherwise.

[MrRsnyder717]

@TheEvilmunkie WHAT? You're clueless. Lincoln was head of the Whig Party for years, which adamently opposed slavery. Lincoln wrote treatises against slavery, and spoke against it publically, often. Sure, once president, his desire to preserve the union outweighed his interest in abolishiing slavery. So what. He was still very anti-slavery, read a book about Lincoln's life.

[Valiant114]

And the secondary argument that "It's ok cause it happened in other states" just doesn't wash. If you sad sacks had your way. you'd have your own country where slavery would still exist, if not in name than in function, and only wealthy landowners could vote. Sell your excuses to your cousin.

[Valiant114]

Ok, let's do some educating; The PRIMARY crop of the agrarian southern states (read: ALL) was COTTON, traded to Great Britain. Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. The number of slaves rose in concert with the increase in cotton production, increasing from around 700,000 in 1790 to around 3.2 million in 1850.[12] By 1860, the southern states were providing two-thirds of the world’s supply of cotton, and up to eighty percent of the British market.

[EdM021]

0:27 "Ah hates th' Declaration of Independence too." HAHAHAHAHA if there were no independent Union there would certainly NOT have been a Confederacy! Just a British Dominion. Maybe.

[BuBzIeNYNY]

when union soldigers captured jefferson he was wearing a dress. the yakee nation prevails, theris 3,000,000 yankees ready to fight, i rase one new yankee soldiger a year, we'll never stop reclaming what is ours

[theboyintheredshirt]

Anyone else see the irony that Jefferson's portrait is shown on the line "I hates the Declaration of Independence too." ? Not to mention it's a line that seems to be so much against the idea of individual freedom and state's rights.

[Valiant114]

With all due respect, you are both right, and both wrong. Seccesion in itself was not prohibited by the Constitution, and during the war Pres. Lincoln abused it widely. If the Confederates had never fired upon Sumter, he would have never been given cause for war. That being said, the south could read a map, and knew they would eventually become a minority against the north and west. They secceded because they knew that their way of life, BASED ON A SLAVE ECONOMY, was coming to an END.