• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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

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      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?