re: #235 Decatur Deb
It wasn’t a strong, single nation. It was a nation with a high manufacturing base. Jim Crow, reservations, and internment camps should have disabused you of that idea.
re: #252 Decatur Deb
No, I’m looking at the majority of white Southerners after the Civil War as morally children, whose primary motivation is fear of punishment. If it took a thousand years for them to get to an actual sense of ethics, oh well.