Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Non-PC History Part One

This is my non-politicly-correct Civil War Historical summery,

The civil war was an almost inevitable clash of two fundamentally different cultures making up America at the time. There was the Southern agriculture society that hinged on slow development and growing stuff. and then there was the Northern culture of factory. Now if these two cultures had remained balanced then the whole slavery thing would probably have worked itself out with the inventions of machines.

But the North exploded with population of immigrants thereby forcing the south into what is termed a 'Permanent Minority'. A permanent minority was descibed by De Toquville before the civil war. It is when a large group of people in a country like ours is somehow permanently outnumbered in every way. Now when a group of people are in this position, they cannot keep any laws from being passed, they are completely at the mercy of the 'permanent majority'. There were checks on the permanent majority in the House of Representatives caused by immigration; namely the Senate and the President. Then there were all sorts of aggreements to try to keep the northern states and the southern states balanced. But then California was ready to enter the union and there were no southern states to enter. So another somprimse was forced on the southerners letting California in and making the southerners a permanent minority in the Senate as well. This left only the President (because the suprime court was, as it still is, ineffectual at actually protecting peoples rights) Then Lincoln happened, and the South was cornered. And they turned to fight to protect EVERYTHING that they now considered their way of life that the North was forcing from them. This unfortunately included slavery.

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