re: #284 HappyWarrior

When I was poll watching on primary day, I did it with a transplant, a Long Islander, he told me he could tell the difference between the natives- people whose families have been here generations and those closer to us. Those closer to us are why Virginia has gone light blue. And of course the African-American community and other groups as well. But yeah, I remember when I posted on a forum that had libs and conservatives, one of the Virginia conservatives really resented us NoVa folk because so many of us were or are descended from Yankees. Of course, it’s liberal NoVa that has made the state a great place to live and why Virginia thankfully isn’t where Alabama or Misssissppi is.

Try explaining that to the dyed-in-the-wool Southerner. They really have no clue.

Had Lincoln let the CSA secede, it would have ended up with the CSA being a third-world country dependent on the USA for manufactured goods and commercial services.