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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (283036)4/4/2006 11:55:11 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1574005
 
"But maybe in the CSA the end of slavery and later the civil rights movement might all have been moved back decades. It could be like the 50s or 60s today."

Probably. Considering the cycles, would it have been all that different? The changes were more prominent in the 1970's, have we regressed from then? Well, yes, we have. The reasons are manifold. A lot of those reasons has to do with the black community. Bill Cosby, who I like, can expound on this.

"but conquering the north would likely have been out of their reach."

That was never the goal. Taking Washington DC might have been within their reach. But the biggest goal was self-determination. Rightly or wrongly, they lost. For blacks and poor white Southerners, that might have been the wrong result. For much of the US, that likely was the best outcome.
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