Hawke wrote:

Dude, you need to go to school and learn U.S. history. Because despite
what some idiot revisionist historians from the former Confederate
states say the Civil War was not a war of northern aggression.


The US at that time funded itself largely from excise taxes. Something that was ruinous
to the southern states.

Wes

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"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller