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To: DiogenesLamp; rockrr; DoodleDawg
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.

200 posted on 11/24/2016 5:40:18 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Not going to read your “Marxist” nonsense.


211 posted on 11/25/2016 7:30:40 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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