If Only We Could Get Divorced

[The Grand Nudger]

Really? Industry in north amercia is outsourcing to the south because wages are lower there?

Like if the south was a third world country?

Well, they outsource anywhere that it's cheaper, third world country or not...but yes, In a sense. The thing that deserves mention here is that the north actually treated the south as a third world country and endeavored to make it so. Not just the south, of course, but the south, frontiers, etc. All of the regions that are now so conveniently conservative. Exploiting a cultural identity and experience is often very useful when you want to build a base for an ideology.

Have you never asked yourself how long the confederacy could have kept slavery legal?

Would be difficult to say, could have kept it legal for quite some time....I'd like to think that by now, with southerners like myself - it would become difficult, but who knows. Whether or not they could have kept it legal they could not have kept it viable. Mechanization.

Think of my being a dyed in the wool southerner a bit like your being a dyed in the wool german. You can accept without reservation that the period surrounding the second world war was a huge misstep for your country-and still discuss how it came to pass, correct? I'm in a similar situation. I could give you examples of what it means to be "southern" that are uplifting and important and contribute in a hefty way to what it means to be american overall while simultaneously recognizing that this does not excuse something like slavery. That particular subject is just a given, my extolling the virtues of the south, or the predation upon it by the north, should in no way be taken as a justification for such a thing.