There were slave states in the union

I hate slavery. I hate racial prejudice of all kinds. But I love my state, and half my family has a rich Virginia heritage (other half was sitting in Italy). Oh well, at least I don't have to decide in real life

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Hey Im italian too. How you feel about Tony Soprano? Is he positive about italians or is his steriotyped italian fictional charter?

As a native South Carolinian, the choice is clear:

Union Army, as slavery is a vicious evil.

Well... I think the mobster thing is kind of overplayed in american entertainment, but the stereotype is pretty harmless; I dont think people actually think all Italians are cop killing mobsters. But I cant say I dont love a good mafia movie... What do you think?

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I love watching the Sopranos on HBO!

Get em Boys!

Yeah i think anyone who lets a harmless stereotype like that bother them needs to get over themself

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The North.

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The North. Not only is slavery wrong, but living in a small southern union as opposed to U.S. would be a royal pain in the ass, as moving to the rest of the U.S. would require a visa.

My family IS from here, though, but hey, it's me.

~Ben

I thought you were from the US

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I am.Italian American

I would of fought for the South. Slavery would have eventually been abolished, and Lincoln only emancipated the slaves for political reasons, half way through the war, after previous policies made slaves 'contraband.' (Contraband became hard to feed so the union freed them, letting them fend for theirselves) Other reasons why:

1. The South had a more global economic mindset than the protectionist north. The industrialists who benefited from the war eventually dragged us in WW1

2. The south was more likely to complete the Jeffersonian vision of America composed of yeoman farmers, (independent people who would not have embraced industrial slavery as much as the north)

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While salvery would have been abolished, I belive that a system of apartheid may have developed, seeing that blacks would not have had constutional protection, as they did in the U.S.

~Ben

such a system did develop even though the north won. When the South diverged from the heavy agricultural system and agriculture in general became more mechanized, it most likely would have abandoned segregation and became more liberal, as it did.

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I think it would have been worse without the Constitution around.