An outsiders perspective: this is a 150+ year issue that should’ve been dead and buried since regardless of its outcome, but has been dug up constantly to divide the people, as it makes a good campaign issue. Left alone, I bet you the civil war result would’ve been a minor thing after a generation. There’s countries in europe that have lost huge territories after ww1 and they don’t hold nearly as much spite as americans that are still infighting over a 150+ year old war
An outsiders perspective: this is a 150+ year issue that should’ve been dead and buried since regardless of its outcome, but has been dug up constantly to divide the people, as it makes a good campaign issue. Left alone, I bet you the civil war result would’ve been a minor thing after a generation.
Bruh, the ‘reconciliationist’ position dominated from roughly 1880-1960. You wanna guess what section of US society suffered the most under the ‘dead and buried’ position of the US Civil War?
An outsiders perspective: this is a 150+ year issue that should’ve been dead and buried since regardless of its outcome, but has been dug up constantly to divide the people, as it makes a good campaign issue. Left alone, I bet you the civil war result would’ve been a minor thing after a generation. There’s countries in europe that have lost huge territories after ww1 and they don’t hold nearly as much spite as americans that are still infighting over a 150+ year old war
Bruh, the ‘reconciliationist’ position dominated from roughly 1880-1960. You wanna guess what section of US society suffered the most under the ‘dead and buried’ position of the US Civil War?
There’s countries in Europe that didn’t exist 150 years ago.