re: #92 jamesfirecat

What you posted was true but it was true in a “mean” “unhelpful” sort of way.

For example it would also be true to say that “The election of Abraham Lincoln proved that the South could no longer prevail against the North during presidential elections.”

Its true, isn’t it? But it’s not a very helpful or a very nice thing to say and it by no means justifies what came next.

And that’s why I downdinged you…

I appreciate you explaining why you down-dinged me but I merely pointed out that many Northerners owned slaves although they were against slavery. They did not want those in servitude in the south to vote and insisted that were were 3/5ths of a person.