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reply to post by Indigo5
Interesting theorey, but fiction all the same. It is disputed by not just exhaustive history outlining the cause of the civil war and a reluctant Lincoln, but also the simple fact that the north had ENORMOUS labor resources at the time in the form of European immigrants. There were near perpetual waves of immigration from Germany, Ireland and England...plus swedes and many others to fill the labor demand.
Originally posted by NJoyZ
If you were trying to start an American civil war, what one issue would you choose to divide the people by?
Originally posted by Areveli
reply to post by Indigo5
Interesting theorey, but fiction all the same. It is disputed by not just exhaustive history outlining the cause of the civil war and a reluctant Lincoln, but also the simple fact that the north had ENORMOUS labor resources at the time in the form of European immigrants. There were near perpetual waves of immigration from Germany, Ireland and England...plus swedes and many others to fill the labor demand.
The immigrants you speak of had to deal with harsher work environments than most if not the majority of all Slaves owned in the south.
I highly doubt they would have the energy to be concerned with the politics of the time.
The immigrants you speak of had to deal with harsher work environments than most if not the majority of all Slaves owned in the south.
Originally posted by zedVSzardoz
reply to post by NJoyZ
my one key issue would be that the government wanted to divide us and make us fight so as to break up the union. They thinking (ignorantly and disconnectedly) that the reunification would grant to them greater centralized powers like after the first civil war.....this is not the 1800´s and Obama is not Lincoln....also we are not illiterate grunts on a whole anymore.
*Decentralization of the Federal government rallied behind the threat of government trying to divide us as a people so as to give the Federal government a more advantageous position of power over the people when the union is inevitably reasserted.
Originally posted by garygnu
What would cause Americans to go to civil war - the installation and legitimization of Muslim Sharia Law over Democracy - freedom of and from religious oppression along with starvation from GMO foods.
Sharia Law is a step back into the First century BC or as currently termed BCE. Sharia believers are racists and the race they hate is white. Many blacks fit this category - racists against whites. Jews are white-like but not actually Caucasians.
It explains why some say "All this for a damned flag?"
America was formed to escape religious intolerance in Europe.
Under which flag would you enjoy the lucrative ability of freedom from male domination - none except the American Flag gives that sort of beginning protection. Give us another 100 years and demand for equality will be an idea seldom used since it will be a reality.
The ability to live the life of whom or what you are or what you want to do or what you would like to do and or with whom you want to do that is paramount to the feeling of freedom.
There are millions of Islamic people in America who feel most comfortable where clerics tell you what you can and cannot do and if you don't obey them you pay with your life.
so far so good cause they are correct ... slaves were not freed until the North was losing and it was a last ditch effort to regain a winning momentum.
Originally posted by NJoyZ
reply to posts by burdman30ott6 and Areveli
OK, I like your explanations and especially that you provided information to back them up.
I''ll go with that.
while this is true ... guess who some of the the 'slave barrons' of the south were ???
Second of all, To those of you who mentioned that slaves were for 6% of the population and only for rich people.