re: #183 Dark_Falcon
Ok, since you asked, Northern interests were perfectly happy to buy slave-grown cotton for its mills. Northern pols were perfectly happy to jack around with tarrifs to help themselves and hurt the South. A few slave states fought with the North. Most ‘free’ states adjoining the South had morally indefensible laws re black residency and how to deal with runaways. History nothwithsdanding, that Virginian governor is a dog-whistling a clown catering indirectly to the Nirthers. Still, this nation has had an evil version of ‘Dueling Banjos’ with their revision of that war. I see a dozen cases of whitewashing here, some of which I addressed. A few excitable types may take this as dog whistling, but I know what I mean, and dinner + Guinness time approaches.

Also, yes, I was (what one thought was obviously) tongue-in-cheek when I said “I want to say…but I won’t” then spent 6 lines saying the thing itself, so let’s all be happy and mellow and enjoy the sunny weather and blooming flowers.