I think it's cool we have a lot of dramatards from all over the world. Most are from the Anglosphere but it's still nice to learn about things I didn't know about like voice posting or Trudeau antics. We also have plenty of Brazilians and Latin Americans. 
Do we have any Mexicans cos I don't seem to hear about them very often? 
Of course there's Aevann but he doesn't seem to mention life in Egypt very often if ever. 
Anyway, does anyone want to share any tidbits or anecdotes? Perhaps you'd like to clear up a misconception or shill for the motherland? 
Of course most people here are American but if anyone wants I personally can talk about Texas/Cali/Colorado/Kansas. 
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People actually do have a misunderstanding of what the American Civil War/Confederacy was about, but too many racists clog it up and make defending it untenable.
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Agreed.
I think in particular people don't realize a lot of the soldiers simply fought for their state so not every Confederate was truly immersed in the politics and vice versa for Union soldiers. Plus there was plenty of conscription.
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Shelby Foote put it well when he said many of the Confederate soldiers were simply fighting because they saw their homeland being encroached upon. States in the US as originally envisioned were indeed "states" in the original definition of the word, so of course people were loyal to their homeland and not the federal government. I don't like talking about it much though because as I said it invites actual racists and r-slurs. AFAIK there isn't really any legal reason the Confederacy shouldn't have been allowed to secede.
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Pure cope. A large portion of the white population in these states remained loyal to their country. And the "States' Rights" bullshit somehow didn't apply during the time of the Fugitive Slave law when you trash were coming up here to kidnap people.
We have to take him really seriously because he was on PBS. No way he could be full of shit.
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Revisionist take, that type of thing was definitely wrong but again has different meaning when you operate under the assumption that each state is its own separate country. As to your first point, no shit they were. There were many northerners who wanted to allow the secession as well.
He was a good writer, and I'm not sourcing him. Just agreed with him that many southerners were simply fighting for their own "state".
I don't disagree that the outcome ended up being the best for all involved, either. I just think it's more nuanced than many will say, and many don't even understand it at all to begin with.
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B-word, any take from after Reconstruction is revisionist cope by sore losers.
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Lol I know this is rdrama but this is why I don't like talking about it. If you're trying to brag, you got dangerously close to losing to a vastly inferior opponent. I could speak more on how Reconstruction basically fricked the whole country but meh
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It's touchy for understandable reasons, but I would like it if people were able to talk about it more objectively. It's especially funny to me when zoomers like above act like they're dabbing on the south for winning the war as if it wasn't by far the deadliest war for Americans on both sides, full of senseless and devastating bloodshed. Not even that long ago, either, and with effects that live to this day that are straight up still domestic issues that deserve attention. But they act like it's the same as Germany or Japan getting destroyed halfway around the world.
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