onfire
Silver Member
Just wondering would the world be different if the South had won?
Yup ! And they profited from both sides until they could figure out who was going to win , atmcgearhead said:Ya wanna know the really sad part of it all ? We ( the south ) acually had other countries supportin' us !! These other countries were the ones that we were startin' to do business with instead of the north, because they wanted to raise taxes on everything ! Sound familiar ?
When it ceased to be necessary for people to "struggle" and "work" to make a living. When people no longer succeeded or failed on their own merit. When "mercy" became legislated, instead of coming from the heart. Now, if it gets too tough, people just go on government assistance of one sort or another. Too many of us, when we see our neighbor down on their luck, are also willing to let "Uncle Sam" do what we should be doing. Once they were allowed to seize the power to legislate these things, they will not relinquish it, but are still building on it.truckinbutch said:The ununited states certainly would have been which would have led to the same kind of polarized strife we have seen in other nations over the years .
We are almost evolved to that point today because the population has forgotten what it took to forge
a more perfect union that stood the test of time from 1776 until when in the 2000s .
When did the great dream die ?
Saturna said:Heres a alternate, visual answer....
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Jay
onfire said:I had no intentions of bringing Race into this question, its funny how just a word brings it into question, actually I was looking at the question who s face would be on the penny?
mcgearhead said:In exactly what way are you referin' to ? I personally don't think that it would be any different myself. That was simply another war like any other war where folks couldn't agree on trade and economics. It wasn't a war to end slavery, if that is what you are wonderin'.
If you were referin' to the slavery aspect of it, shame on you. Anyway if you were, no it would still be as it is now. Slavery would have been exterminated sooner or later anyway, as it is wrong. By the way the war was not about slavery, it was about trade agreements between the north and the south. The south decided to break away from the union and Lincoln didn't want that to happen.