It's makes one think that the Civil War should not have been fought. In that case, slaves in all probability would have eventually escaped to the North or revolted in large numbers and the South would have had to reform its ways and move on to a more normal system. At this time most of the resistance to change is coming from southern conservatives that are the last bullwork of the old America. Without this contingent, one of which shoulted "You lie!" at the president last night, it is likely that the current health care proposals would pass easily and that our cultural divide would be much relieved. The North could move on with its liberal agenda and the South could fight foreign wars and let business and the wealthy run their Christian country. And, in such close proximity it would have been quite easy for conservatives to move south and liberals to move north. Since you've been recently entertaining us with how WWII was a questionable war, how about taking on the Civil War in a like vein?

Re: Elwood Anderson
The war between the states was fought because over 80% of federal revenue came from the south through tariffs. They did not have the population nor the political power to say how it was spent. As far as fighting foreign wars go, it has always been the money grubing northeasterners that have gotten us into these things.