[DiogenesLamp]

For any who have not encountered him before, DiogenesLamp is now our most persistent pro-Confederate propagadist, salesman for the Lost Cause, defender of historical mythology and revisionism.

I was wondering how long it would take you to show up here. :)

You call it "revisionism", I call it "Following the money."

You want to know the truth about anything? Follow the money. Why don't you like following the money BroJoe?

New York State is the "Empire State" because of the civil war. That conflict kept the money stream concentrated in New York City, and that's why New York City is the financial headquarters of the world today.

The war was about money Bro. This money.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You want to know the truth about anything? Follow the money.
Why don't you like following the money BroJoe?"

So you offer up Lost Causer mythology infused with Marxist dialectics and you fanaticize that makes sense.
It doesn't.

The fact is that you exaggerate for propaganda purposes both the cause (money) and the effect (motive for war), while ignoring any historically inconvenient facts (i.e., Confederate assault on Fort Sumter).

DiogenesLamp: "New York State is the "Empire State" because of the civil war."

More cockamamie rubbish.
In fact, George Washington first called New York "the Seat of the Empire" in 1785, a time when New York was the nation's capital.
The term "Empire State" was used widely since at least the 1820s, so had nothing to do with the Civil War.

DiogenesLamp: "The war was about money Bro. This money."

Only in your Marxist trained fantasies.
In fact, none of the participants at the time said anything such thing, and they would know their own minds better than you or your Uncle Karl.

[southland]

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