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Old 12-15-2005, 02:26 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by filtherton
He's saying that the common framing of the civil war as being mainly about state's rights is perhaps a tad bit full of shit.
Well it was about the States' right to allow slavery, it's not incorrect just incomplete.

Of course the primary argument above, that only blacks can work outdoors in tropical climates, was rendered obsolete with the invention of sunsreen.
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