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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?
Norton Quintessential:
I'm just going to have to agree to disagree with you on the whole CSA thing. My understanding for the reason the KKK wasn't around (at least in any great power) prior to the Civil War was because the people who would later form the KKK they were in charge.
And any other claim besides slavery the CSA made about seceeding was, at best, secondary by far. At least, that's my understanding.
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: Norton Quintessential on 08 Apr 2008, 14:59 ---I'm just going to have to agree to disagree with you on the whole CSA thing. My understanding for the reason the KKK wasn't around (at least in any great power) prior to the Civil War was because the people who would later form the KKK they were in charge.
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You have to remember, the KKK was originally formed to resist the military occupation of the Southern states. They intimidated any collaborators with the Federal Government. And, the first KKK declined because the Southern elites turned against it, believing that the Klan's tactics were just giving the Northerners an excuse to continue their military occupation. It disbanded in 1871 after declining for about three years.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying the Confederacy would be racial harmony, gumdrops and rainbows. I do feel, however, that a free South that comes to its own decision to free the slaves would be less inclined to violence against them than a frustrated, angry South that does so under the guns of the North.
--- Quote ---And any other claim besides slavery the CSA made about seceeding was, at best, secondary by far. At least, that's my understanding.
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Lincoln offered a Constitutional Amendment in 1861 once he was in office - slavery would be forever protected in the South. No states returned to the Union.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had a loophole. Any state that rejoined the Union before Jan 1, 1863 would be exempt from it, just like Maryland and the like where. No states took him up on it.
Then, late in the war, a plan came up to give slaves their freedom in exchange for military service. It wasn't completed due to certain events in April of 1865, but the mere fact the South even began discussing it (and the other examples) says to me that independence and state/personal liberty (for white men, of course, not that "personal liberty" applied to anyone else in the mid-1800s, no matter what nation) was worth more than retaining slavery.
Norton Quintessential:
...Point well made, sir. Point well made.
I honestly can't think of anything else to say on the matter, so here's that fantastic dinosaur icon: :-D
MrSteevo:
I'm going to search for talks about the south and Civil war in QC, seeing as Jeph's a huge fan on it and I remember seeing a comic about it.
Here we go:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
This is a start, but it can work both ways.
Norton Quintessential:
Personally, when it comes to QC, I like to think of it as the same in terms of history: some guy just made little robots and inhabitable space stations.
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