[When_Penguins_Attack]

If the South won, Spike Lee wouldn't exist !

Bull. Slavery was on its way out, even if grudgingly. Over 70% of those who fought for the South owned no slaves.

I am amazed at two things about the Civil War:
1) The absolute ignorance of those who post on it (who will then accuse you of "wanting to refight the Civil War"-- watch for it in a posting near you!)
2) The assumption that the South as a whole did not recognize slavery as an evil. They did, but argued (wrongly, I think), that an evil which had so ingrained itself into the structure of a society had to be eradicated slowly, so as not to cause excessive societal disruption (which begs the question of disruption to WHO? Blacks did not fit in to the equation).

The fact is that it was a war "over" slavery, but "about" whether states or the federal government were sovereign. We decided both issues, one for good, but the other for the destruction of the republic, although it has taken almost 150 years for the decision to really fruit out.

The fact that Spike Lee is a race baiting idiot does not detract from the fact that he makes good flicks.

[Renegade]

But Spike Lee probably still wouldn't exist . Any change in the time line down to a millisecond would have resulted in a different sperm fertilizing an egg that would have developed in to a totally different person . The odds of one person existing are phenomenal BTW , I hold to the "states rights " issue as the cause of the Civil War of which slavery was but one facet . Some people say blame Eli Whitney for the invention of the cotton gin . It created the need for more slave labor to harvest cotton because of the increase in the amount of cotton that could be cleaned with the machine.