You Lost - Get Over It

[squirrelcsi]

Why in the heck anyone would be proud to be of Confederate ancestory boggles the mind. But it appears in Florida we're having a rash of controversy over the old Confederate Navy Jack flag or the Southern Cross. (The Confederacy had a slew of flags and the one most seen today is the Navy Jack, not The Stars and Bars.) First they want a commerative

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[undead_rtwa]

According to research I did back in college, the north was slowly cultivating an industrial economy and the south an agrarian economy. However, the north had a surplus population and the south had a population shortage. Rather than do what made sense, and relocate some northerners to the south and solve both of their problems at once, people starved to death in the north when they couldn't get jobs, and the south bought more and more slaves. Eventually, business owners in the north who were running factories realized that if the south could prop up their ultimately doomed economy by using slaves, they could get filthy stinking rich by using slaves. Of course, this meant that unemployment in the north would skyrocket, but the industrial barons didn't care much. However, the people DID care and started exerting political pressure to eliminate slavery. Not because slavery was morally repugnant, but because they wanted to work. As the debate started to get more heated, the south fought against them because their economy was so horribly flawed that only the use of slaves kept it viable. Eventually, they would have reached a decision to simply have slavery in the south and not in the north or the newly developing west, but the European powers were starting to put political pressure on America to give up the barbaric practice of slavery. America's leaders esentially sold out the south to save face in the international community, championing their model of restricting slavery to the south and claiming it was because the south wouldn't give up slavery. While this was true, it conveniently left out the details that the only reason the north was against slavery were economic ones. Southern leaders refused to be made the scapegoat of the nation and have their names drug through the mud, but couldn't give up slavery without destroying their own lifestyle and economic power. Thus, they gave the union an ultimatum: Allow slavery in the whole nation or we ceceede. Thus, the civil war wasn't about slavery, it was about slavery in the North and West, brought on by a nation divided by two poorly planned economic systems, and aggrivated by resistance to mobility of human resources.