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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)7. Sometimes it seems it wasn't. However, thinking about it,
if we had let the South secede we would have been co-existing with a hostile nation next to us, kind of like Iraq and Iran. We would have refugee camps on our borders filled with runaway slaves that white people probably wouldn't want to live next door to and any other variety of problems because we didn't fix THE PROBLEM.
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what about ""those democrats" who are allowing elections to be stolen by doing 0 about that? nt
msongs
Jan 2012
#38
Speaking of welfare. Newtie, the toadman, said Barak Obama has issued more food stamps than
Cleita
Jan 2012
#55
since I've repeatedly said the post was in frustration b/c of the S.C. deal with Gringrich
RainDog
Jan 2012
#76
Maybe the red states in the west/midwest should be returned to various Native Americans
RainDog
Jan 2012
#24
My personal views on this are that the North wasn't hard enough on the South.
white_wolf
Jan 2012
#19
When the OP is about kicking out the states that have the majority of the black population
JoeyT
Jan 2012
#116
YES and since Washington and Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves their bodies should have been dug up
Nye Bevan
Jan 2012
#49
I suppose we all want to isolate ourselves from those we disagree with...
LanternWaste
Jan 2012
#124