To: jttmab who wrote (7989 ) 12/1/2001 8:32:34 PM From: Lazarus_Long Respond to As usual, the devil is in the details. Lincoln didn't say the southern states couldn't secede; that would be a real tough case to justify legally. What he said was that United States federal property in the territory of the CSA remained US property. From the southern point of view, this was outrageous. This meant little pockets of enemy territory were peppered all through you. So they decided to fight.why not start a war with Canada? Czechoslovia was a pretty unique situation that worked out very well. There was never any conflicts between Bohemia and Slovakia; they just wanted to be rid of the Hungarian empire. The Slavic folks in Cleveland and Pittsburgh figured out the merger as a way of getting political leverage for the formation post WWI. And it appears that the cultures in the region continued to see themselves as separate from each other through the subsequent decades. I've talked to a couple of my aunts that while born in the US, their parents were born in either the Czech Republic or Slovakia and it's still ingrained that they were always separate regions, and we didn't talk to those people... It's been over a hundred years since they each branch immigrated and they still talk about those people. somebody must have been talking to somebody or they wouldn't both be your aunts! :-)
