I'd love to do a do-over... Lincoln doesn't re-supply Sumpter... Meets with Jefferson Davis and says, "See ya 'round like a doughnut"...

Yeah, I know that that would mean I'd be a citizen of the CSA but I firmly believe that the South would be further along in terms of humanity if Lincoln had just let it go... And as I have argued many times, slavery was on its way out... It had been outlawed in country after country going back to the 1820s and it was going to be outlawed in a future CSA, as well without a hundred years of Jim Crow... People might think that the rednecks would still have had the Klan and, yeah, some would have gone that route but if the the majority of Southerners had wanted to ban slavery then the Klan's recruiting wouldn't have been so easy...

And I also know that when ever I throw this out there the it brings the usual righteously indignant "Horrors, Bobert" responses... Normal...

The Civil (which it wasn't) War has been a anchor around this country...

B~