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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (227277)	7/5/2013 12:48:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540810

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.. The facts remain. The south had to be dragged into the 19th century by a horrible civil war. It had to be dragged into the 20th through the horrible Jim Crow era that followed. It's currently proving it's going to have to be dragged into the 21st century as well. Southern states, with an exception or two, soak up more Federal tax dollars than they take in, year after dreary year. I think a more healthy speculation would be, what if we had just allowed the south to secede, and be DONE with them? Let them keep their slavery-based plantations and let every slave know, if they get north, they'll be free. I think they'd be even more retarded than they are NOW, but, at least they wouldn't be OUR problem. I've never been a big alternative history fan.