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Thread #104395 Message #2139988
Posted By: Bobert
03-Sep-07 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: history of USA Presidential elections...
Subject: RE: BS: history of USA Presidential elections...
I agree wholeheartedly with what LH has just said... Given the some 80 more years of Jim Crow rule in the South another 20 or even 30 years of "slavery". IMO, would have been a hundred times better than the War Between the States (I'm no longer going to use the term "civil war" 'cause it wasn't...)
Actually things didn't much change in the South during the Jim Crow years... Blacks did the same kinda work for the same people... The only difference was they were paid terrible wages, loaned money by their bosses to get by, and in essence lived as slaves well into 20th century...
Might of fact, I believe that the US would be a lot further down the road in regards to "civil rights" and national harmony had the War Between the States had never occured, even if it meant slavery going out of style thru evolution...
As fir Lincoln being a great military/war president, I really don;t see that... McClellon was his guy and McClellon was a tad slow on the trigger finger and got a bunch of Union troops messed up from his timidity... Great war presidents pick great generals... Lincoln didn't start out too well...
Bobert