Yeah I'm pretty sure the last time someone tried to do that it started a war.
which they lost
Did they? I still see their flags flying and statues of their heroes still standing. That sounds to me like the "winning" side decided that reconciliation was more important than accountability and that there was no possible way that would come back to bite the US in the ass repeatedly for the next 160 years.
As discussed elsewhere in the comments, the Union should have crushed the southern elites until this nonsense was dead for good. As a modern southerner, I can attest that was the time to deal with this foolishness.
Knowing that some of the generals during the Civil War were actually quite forward-thinking and just generally intelligent, I'd love to somehow go back in time with evidence of things that will happen because they went easy on the southern states after aleverything was over, sit down with them and see what they think.
And would they still go easy on the southern elite, or would they American History X them into the Great Sleep?
All I know is i grew up in the same area William T Sherman was born in, and I've just got a natural urge to walk to the sea for some southern BBQ.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the last time someone tried to do that it started a war.
which they lost
Did they? I still see their flags flying and statues of their heroes still standing. That sounds to me like the "winning" side decided that reconciliation was more important than accountability and that there was no possible way that would come back to bite the US in the ass repeatedly for the next 160 years.
As discussed elsewhere in the comments, the Union should have crushed the southern elites until this nonsense was dead for good. As a modern southerner, I can attest that was the time to deal with this foolishness.
Knowing that some of the generals during the Civil War were actually quite forward-thinking and just generally intelligent, I'd love to somehow go back in time with evidence of things that will happen because they went easy on the southern states after aleverything was over, sit down with them and see what they think.
And would they still go easy on the southern elite, or would they American History X them into the Great Sleep?
All I know is i grew up in the same area William T Sherman was born in, and I've just got a natural urge to walk to the sea for some southern BBQ.
It's only illegal when the Democrats want to secede