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You're Confederate ... But Don't Know It?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 643508" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>I think the author's premise is all wrong. The war was not fought over competing theories of government but ultimately over allegiance. The Southerners generally viewed the "Nation" as a loose "confederation" of independent states. They were Alabamians, North Carolinians, Virginians, Texans, etc that had joined together into a loose national government called the United States and when they felt like it was in their best interests they could dissolve that Union and replace it with any other manner of Confederation or just go independent. That viewpoint is over. Most folks generally consider themselves "Americans" now. Alabamian is not a nationality any more. Neither is Texan. There are probably as many people born in Ohio, Michigan, and Guadalahara living there as there are native born Texans. Ultimately the failure that was the Civil War can be laid at the feet of Madison, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson (who wrote the Bill of Rights, though not the Constitution) because they did not legally write into the Constitution a right of Secession (or a legal prohibition against it) making the attempted breakup into a disastrous mess. The Confederacy is DEAD. Leave flowers at the grave and get over it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 643508, member: 7645"] I think the author's premise is all wrong. The war was not fought over competing theories of government but ultimately over allegiance. The Southerners generally viewed the "Nation" as a loose "confederation" of independent states. They were Alabamians, North Carolinians, Virginians, Texans, etc that had joined together into a loose national government called the United States and when they felt like it was in their best interests they could dissolve that Union and replace it with any other manner of Confederation or just go independent. That viewpoint is over. Most folks generally consider themselves "Americans" now. Alabamian is not a nationality any more. Neither is Texan. There are probably as many people born in Ohio, Michigan, and Guadalahara living there as there are native born Texans. Ultimately the failure that was the Civil War can be laid at the feet of Madison, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson (who wrote the Bill of Rights, though not the Constitution) because they did not legally write into the Constitution a right of Secession (or a legal prohibition against it) making the attempted breakup into a disastrous mess. The Confederacy is DEAD. Leave flowers at the grave and get over it. [/QUOTE]
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