WhAts up with you damned Georgians? Didn't want to be part of the union even prior to the Civil War.?
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People in Georgia are proved of our family history. The confederacy stand for state the want to fight for the state rights. We get mad about people who do not know what the confederacy is about. If you are talk about the old Georgia flag issue then we was mad for change a flag for a small group of people did not like it.
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That's a huge question.  You should do some research on causes of the Civil War - there are plenty of children's, students', and young adult books concerning the topic.\n\nTrying to be brief here... The Lincoln/Northern view was that the United States is a union first and a confederation second - in other words, once you're in the Union, you can't back out, otherwise the very strength of the Union, of the United States, is undermined.  If Lincoln had just said, "Oh, heck with it!  Good luck to you Southern states!", it would have made it difficult if not impossible to keep any other state from seceding for any reason whatsoever.  Lincoln and the North pressed the war in order to preserve the Union and establish the supremacy of nationhood over statehood.\n\nBesides, historians and economists in years since have speculated that, in time, the South and North would probably have reunited in some way anyway, as both regions would have had a mutual interest.
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always that fear of civil war again. but as for disagreements, every country has them. can't make everybody happy. always the discontents. but this country has too much to offer, for it to break up. too many checks and balances.
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LOL glad we got all the ugly stuff out of the way first.\n\nWell this is a very good question. I am going to have to surf on some Georgia info I see. Maybe they will be the example for others to follow. One way or another something has to give.\n\nThe reason our government isnt handeling it as of yet? They are owned by corporations now, just as our media is. Sad but true. Corporation's are behind the tremendious backing going on at the moment. To pay for the massive propaganda that is being put out to the American public. Many of us have been very active the last few days, in areas of repeated emails to congress and the president over the issues and how we REALLY feel and VOTE on it. A quite bombardment. Internet polls all reflect 95% against Amnesty. So its coming down to who shouts the loudest and has access to all the forms of media to inform those not on the internet. Yes many many are beyond outradge at their lack of protection and responsibilty to these matters.\n\nThere has been a large increase at the boarders. Minuetmen are very much in need of more members. My guess is that National guard will end up the next alternative. But, to be honest that is what they are for. Protecting OUR country. And were not meant to be sent overseas.\n\nThis is one area we may have been underestimated in. The American drive when they want something and when they have been threatened. And as of late their biggest tactic besides lies and propaganda has been threats and intimadation. Americans don't take to well to demands and threats.\n\nPlease email me some website links about the changes being made in Georgia and how they are being made.
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Do you man Georgians, as int he state of Georgia? If so, then this list might be of assistance to you. \n\nFamous Georgians\n\nhttp://www.promotega.org/asu00018/people/peoplepg.htm\nhttp://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/famousga.htm
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Being from Georgia I think I can at least partly answer your question. Family feuds are always the worst. When the United States wins a war against a foreign enemy we have always helped rebuild them  been merciful and tried to make them our friends  whether we were successful or not. \nAfter the Civil war corrupt northern politicians took advantage of the situation in the south to ruin the lives steal the property , and do almost everything possible to alienate the population of the former Confederacy. Many Families, and only a small proportion of them slaveholders by the way, lost everything they had. My own family went from being well to do landowners to near poverty in one generation. So yes many families have a history of bitterness to people from the north, and have very little patience for their smug self righteous air of superiority.
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By your question I can tell you have no idea why the War of Northern Aggression (aka Civil War) was fought. In actuality only the north and mainly Lincoln made it a racial war. Lincoln had to have a reason for fighting his war because he had lost his biggest asset for running the government and the North was rapidly going into a depression without the tax money from the South. Lincoln provoked the war to bring back the southern states to regain the taxes he had lost with the succession of the south by putting more and more troops into Ft. Sumter against the demands of the Confederacy not to do so. President Davis sent several emissaries to Washington requesting no additional troops or arms into the fort or the Confederacy would consider it an aggressive act of war and fire. Lincoln put more troops and arms in and the Confederacy fired.\n\nIf you go to the South today you will find in almost every state that there is not a reestablishment of racial supremacy by the whites, On the contrary, especially in Mississippi the blacks are taking over city governments rapidly and most do not make any bones about it they want the whites out. I heard this myself while in MS last year during mayoral races when one black mayoral canadate said if elected she would do all she could to drive the whites out of her city. She won the vote.\n\nNow before any blacks get upset and start calling me names, I have nothing against blacks in any way. I have a number of very good friends who are black and have a cousin in the my family who is black. I consider all people equal unless an individual person creates a situation that should not be tolerated by anyone.
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NONE of my family came to this country until 1887.  We were\nnot even in this country while slavery was common practice.\nWhy on earth should they be need reparations for something\nthat didn't touch them???????  NOT ONE OF THEM has ever \nbeen a slave. The civil war was over in 1865, so no one \nhas even remotely distant relatives that were effected by it.  THIS WHOLE ISSUE IS RIDICULES!!!!
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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.   An ancestor of mine was his cousin.
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the south wanted to secede from the union and pres lincoln just wasnt gunna have it
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Bloody Kansas participant, pretty much violent and deranged. He hated slavery and wanted to get all the slaves to go against the whites (even though Brown was a white). Go Russia!
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no but i read your answer to the revolutionary war question and north and south, yeah that was the civil war, not the american revolutionary war
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I do not think there was a way to poll slave owners. I would guess perhaps less than 3%.The plantation owners owned the majority and they as well were in politics as always it's who has the money and power, so when the North pushed the slave issue guess who voted for secession?
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My Dear Yankee Friend,\n\n  You are correct it is an interesting question but I am afraid my answer would not be as nearly as interesting, especially after seeing the answers you have all ready received.\n   I was unaware that Secession was or is against the law.  Even though one of the main things solved by the War was the question from the founding fathers and Lincoln whether or not the Republic would survive.  It did!\n\n    I cannot believe the answers about equality and the other nonsense but the War did end slavery with the 13 th amendment.  I wonder how many people realize that the 14 th amendment was never legally ratified?\n\n    The War decided that agriculture was to be replaced by manufacturing.\n\n    The War decided how far the Union –Northerners-Yankees would go to enforce their will on others; that the rights of the citizen; the Constitution meant and mean nothing.  It proved that they are willing to sacrifice the lives and properties of civilians, has anything changed?\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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I've read that it was the South's continued practice of slavery that turned off the English.  The British had outlawed slavery and didn't much care to be associated with it anymore.  Had the Confederacy abandoned that institution, I think you might have seen a slightly different outcome, but then again, slavery was one of the reasons (not THE reason, but ONE of many reasons) for the conflict in the first place, so...
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To me, it goes back to the Civil War, when the Confederacy was red and the Union was blue. In other words, Republicans(today, even though roles were reversed back then) are in many ways still like the Confederacy, pretty much all the states that were in the Confederacy are still Republican.
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Lets just go back to horse and buggy..trains ran on coal and such...lol..I don't think we have many allies anymore...its a shame. Nice flag there Tex...