Uniter not a Divider

[bobman0330]

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I thought the red states tried to break away and you wouldn't let them.

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Yeah, if only the national political scene was even remotely comparable to modern day....hmmm....then you'd have presented quite an interesting statement.

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It's precisely because the political scene is different that this statement is so interesting. The North was perfectly happy to hold the Union together when it could impose undesirable import duties on the South to its own benefit, but now that the South is becoming politically more powerful, they want out. The word might be hypocrisy.