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To: combjelly who wrote (283055)	4/6/2006 2:15:44 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574004

the 1970's, have we regressed from then? No. Well it depends on what your measuring, but we haven't become a more racist society or one that accepts racial discrimination more than we did in the 60s or 70s. "but conquering the north would likely have been out of their reach." That was never the goal. I know, in fact I said as much in my post, but the article that Ted quoted seemed to imply that in the movie they did.

To: combjelly who wrote (283055)	4/7/2006 5:29:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574004

"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. What changes were more prominent in the 1970s and how have we/the black people regressed? "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. I don't know.........conquering the North would have been a vertical integration move for the South's favorite industry: cotton and the products it makes. I really think the Civil War was more over economics than slavery, and the South would not have ignored an opportunity to control the North.