as a full blooded Texan through and through i of course love this idea and share your sympathies... but i always have to remind people the last time the south tried to secede we had a civil war and the media blamed it all on slavery and still do to this day. if we can secede wonderful.im just saying it wont be as easy as a flick of the wrist
Oh, come on. Quit it with the Civil War revisionism.
The Civil War was about slavery, 100%. It was a war fought to preserve the institution under the guise of “state’s rights.” That’s it.
“But the South would be economically devastated if slavery were to end, so they were fighting for their livelihoods!” No shit - ending a free labor pool of nearly 4 million slaves was absolutely going to kill the economy. But guess what, the cost of that - keeping people enslaved - was not worth it.
It’s not edgy, partisan or smart to state that the war wasn’t about slavery. Slavery underlined every single argument the Confederacy made for their secession.
Excellent point - slavery was far from 'free labor'. There was a huge amount of overhead with 'owning' slaves, when compared against machinery. Think of it this way - McDonald's pays maybe $8.00 an hour (at least for a short while longer) - does that employee really cost McDonald's $8.00 an hour, or more, far, far, more - given all of the overhead that goes with that employee - such as sick time, SS payouts, unemployment insurance, threats of lawsuits, etc.? Now think of a machine.
as a full blooded Texan through and through i of course love this idea and share your sympathies... but i always have to remind people the last time the south tried to secede we had a civil war and the media blamed it all on slavery and still do to this day. if we can secede wonderful.im just saying it wont be as easy as a flick of the wrist
Oh, come on. Quit it with the Civil War revisionism.
The Civil War was about slavery, 100%. It was a war fought to preserve the institution under the guise of “state’s rights.” That’s it.
“But the South would be economically devastated if slavery were to end, so they were fighting for their livelihoods!” No shit - ending a free labor pool of nearly 4 million slaves was absolutely going to kill the economy. But guess what, the cost of that - keeping people enslaved - was not worth it.
It’s not edgy, partisan or smart to state that the war wasn’t about slavery. Slavery underlined every single argument the Confederacy made for their secession.
Excellent point - slavery was far from 'free labor'. There was a huge amount of overhead with 'owning' slaves, when compared against machinery. Think of it this way - McDonald's pays maybe $8.00 an hour (at least for a short while longer) - does that employee really cost McDonald's $8.00 an hour, or more, far, far, more - given all of the overhead that goes with that employee - such as sick time, SS payouts, unemployment insurance, threats of lawsuits, etc.? Now think of a machine.