[4CJ]

The south failed in its bid for revolution because it couldn't operate as a modern economy.

A lie. The South failed in it's bid because a military foe denied it the right to self-government.

[WhiskeyPapa]

The south failed in its bid for revolution because it couldn't operate as a modern economy.

A lie. The South failed in it's bid because a military foe denied it the right to self-government.

And sent them to bed without supper -- AND changed the parental code on the Playstation 2.

The south was denied the right to self-government because they agreed to be bound permanently into a perpetual federal Union. And they were denied the right to self government because they couldn't bring the military power to maintain their territorial integrity. That is how the Goths sacked Rome, Rome conquered Carthage, Titus sacked Jerusalem, Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Saddam Hussein was kicked out of Kuwait, and....get the picture? And the south couldn't bring military power because slave labor couldn't produce the power needed to compete with a free labor economy.

Walt