Quite true. Dividing North America in three countries would have been terrible, and like I mentioned, horribly inconvenient.

I would fight for the Union since I don't care much for thieves.

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"We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border,” -- John McCain, in an ABC News interview

Thieves of what?

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Of the People's territory

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"We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border,” -- John McCain, in an ABC News interview

Northerners are as much to blame for that.

the Confederacy , they were in the right

they wanted to leave the union and the desire to make them stay in was the ONLY reason the North protested.

The South should have been able to leave the union . so I would fight on the side which was right .

I heard on a video today that prior to the War of 1812, the New England states considered leaving the union ... because their economic interests were threatened by Federal policy! -- Louis J Sheehan

I voted for the North, but have absolutely no personal background with the civil war. I don't believe my German ancestors arrived till later and my Irish ancestor was in Utah at the time. So all the ancestors I had at the time period didn't want anything to do with the Union.

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I don't pretend to know everything, educate me, and I'll try to educate you. Shouting matches and insults aren't going to convince me.

Well on my mothers side was a steam boat Captin John Worden that faught a rebel confederate ship that ended in a tie. I also had relatives that died in the Alamo. Another Worden in my family was one of the first border patrol agents on horse back out of Texas but they maned the whole border by horse if you can imagine that. I think that the North were more literate than in the south except for the higher ranks which had to be intelligent and that seems to be the case for both blacks and whites. I've met some very unintelligent people in the south as a truck driver that I would never meet in the North or North West unless they were illegals from Mexico. Some are still relatively nice but as for seeing eye-to-eye would be hard to do. My grandmother came from England and is a direct descendant of Queen Elizabeth I. Some people can be kind of trashy acting from the south so you can see it would be hard to get along that way. I would have to say the North but I have no problem with descent people from the South. Sometimes they'll start off nice but they can have a gritty way of acting. What you see is what you get with people in the North it seems. Some act like crap but at least you know right out and some right out in your face in today's times. I do like the simplicity of the south when they are not acting crazy.

It seems like basically the same choice to me. Either work to barely survive or quit, be blacklisted, and starve to death. Slaves could either work or not and be killed. Sounds about the same to me.

As awesome as it would to own slaves and even though my heritage is southern i would have to fight for the north as a divided country wouldnt be as powerful of a country. Also third country interference would likely lead to the southern states being under the control of some European country.

Seing as how I'm in a Northern State and conscription or draft was the main method of recruitment, I think I'd abstain. But if I had been drafted, I'd have been in the Union army.

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Screw Change!! Let's have a Seamless Transition of Power and Policy.. John McSame in 2008!

I'd sign up for the Union army and fight against the conservative terrorists in the South.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

The real question is though, how many of you would join the south if you knew the outcome of the war? Or would you joint he South to change the outcome?

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I don't pretend to know everything, educate me, and I'll try to educate you. Shouting matches and insults aren't going to convince me.

You mean the Democrat lead south, right?

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Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy's.

He did say conservative not liberal And in 1862 the Democrats were the conservatives while the Republicans were the radical liberals.

Times sure changed didn't they?

Queshank