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Originally Posted by Oberon
I wonder how many other nations on this Earth who have had a civil war well over a hundred years ago, are still so heatedly divided today. Russia perhaps, although their most recent civil war was just under a hundred years ago, Korea as well, but that's much more recent. Ireland, perhaps, but again, although the history is long, the violence is still fairly recent.  |
The difference between the US and secession in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc, is that the in US, we drew up our own union. In Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, the French the English, the Russians, the Ottomans and the Chinese drew up borders for other peoples.
Also, the mythos of the "Lost Cause" dies hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Ca...he_Confederacy