Warbler said:

CP3S said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Secede from what?

he means secede from the Union, The United States Of America. Its what the south tried to do during the Civil War.

And our government killed them for it. It wasn't awesome.

I realize it is just a conspiracy theory, but maybe slavery had something to do with it? And please remember the south did its fair share of killing those on the government side.

You're right, it was all about slavery. That is why people in the north didn't have any slaves at that time. Makes total sense!

*sigh*

Come on Warb, it is well documented historical fact.

You can pretend America is this fantastic place with the unfortunate exception of these backward southern assholes who used to own slaves and are still crazy racists who would invoke all sorts of racist law and gunship runs of the Mexican border if they had their way all you want, but the fact remains that slavery was nation wide and the Civil War was about maintaining the union. They weren't fighting to the death and risking their lives for their right to own slaves. Plenty of those fighting and dying on the southern side in the Civil War didn't even own slaves. There were even a decent number of former slaves fighting on the southern side. They're were plenty fighting on the northern side who were slave owners. The south was fighting for their freedom to rule themselves; and the north was fighting to maintain the Union.