# I wish the South would have won the civil war **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 11, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600 "2005-04-11T22:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/21 "2005-04-13T09:32:03Z")
> [@slowkid02](#): > > ^ WOW you are so right(sarcastically)^ and you can say whatever I really dont give a fuck! well why dont you elaborate as to why you think my statement is so gay? ---
**Author:** ![slowkid02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@slowkid02](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowkid02)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/22 "2005-04-13T09:35:05Z")
Because then it wouldn’t be United States idiot! ---
**Author:** ![deadeyehatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@deadeyehatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deadeyehatch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/23 "2005-04-13T09:36:13Z")
> [@Darkstar](#): > > i dont care what caused it. Those stupid redneck inbred fucks need their own country. A land where if you criticize the leadership, you can get the hell out. Where if you are queer, black, or a woman you get to sit on the back of the bus (if you’re lucky and arent lynched by a mob first) and if you dont believe in god, they will try to personally introduce you to him. Mom will stay home and raise the kids while Dad is out working. She will have dinner ready for him on the table when he gets home, and there are only 3 channels on TV: One that continuously plays Leave it to Beaver, the God channel, and of course Fox News. The older and rustier your pickup is, the more of a status symbol it is. Guys with one tooth and a gut past their dick and whoever your sister happens to be will supercede the traditional sex symbols. What a beautiful place it would have been. you forgot the all-NASCAR channel :doh: ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/24 "2005-04-13T09:39:53Z")
> [@slowkid02](#): > > Because then it wouldn’t be United States idiot! why wouldnt it? There’s more than one state north of the Mason-Dixon line. There would just be another country below us called something else. Like the “Confederate Backwoods Hick-ass Sister Fucking States of Bubbaland”. I’m sure they’d save a nice plot of land for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![slowkid02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@slowkid02](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowkid02)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/25 "2005-04-13T09:42:45Z")
I’m sure they would. Can you call and make the reservation for my plot. Thanks! And I wouldn’t want to get a damn passport just to go Florida or the Keys on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/26 "2005-04-13T09:48:58Z")
> [@slowkid02](#): > > I’m sure they would. Can you call and make the reservation for my plot. Thanks! > > And I wouldn’t want to get a damn passport just to go Florida or the Keys on vacation. well you have to remember that Florida wouldnt be made up mostly of retiree’s from the North as it is now. It would be populated by people like this: (on second thought, I’ll get to work on reserving that plot for you) ---
**Author:** ![slowkid02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@slowkid02](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowkid02)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/27 "2005-04-13T09:52:38Z")
Thanks a lot you been such a big help. Now I can live out my life long dream. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/28 "2005-04-13T10:01:29Z")
🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/29 "2005-04-13T10:47:59Z")
> [@slowkid02](#): > > Thanks a lot you been such a big help. Now I can live out my life long dream. :rolleyes: I’m glad I could be of assistance. ---
**Author:** ![Jethro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Jethro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jethro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/30 "2005-04-13T16:33:30Z")
> [@showtime](#): > > ok jethro from WV And that has what to do with the fact I’m proud of my heritage and educated? ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/31 "2005-04-13T17:22:53Z")
> [@Jethro](#): > > And that has what to do with the fact I’m proud of my heritage and educated? Street Smarts \> Educated ---
**Author:** ![Jethro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Jethro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jethro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/32 "2005-04-13T18:32:39Z")
I have a nice balance of both… ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/33 "2005-04-14T05:14:29Z")
> [@Jethro](#): > > And that has what to do with the fact I’m proud of my heritage and educated? that has to do with with the fact that you don’t tell the whole story. > [@Jethro](#): > > Nice to see most of the people on here are just as uneducated as the rest of the population about the Civil War. Slavery had nothing to do with why the war until 1863. (Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, 1863) The war began in 1861. The main reason the Civil War occured was over states rights versus the federal government. The southern states were heavily for states rights in which the federal government had little say in what the states did. The northern states wanted a heavily centralized federal government with the states have lesser abilities. The divides began to rear their ugly heads in the early 1850’s and grew from there. I didn’t want to be bothered doing this cause its a waste of my time…but since you think your SO educated on it. & claim slavery had nothing to do with the war… first of the problems started around 1820 during the Missouri Compromise, not 1850 like you said…then in the 1830’s with the increase in abolitionists made it escalate…The compromise of 1850 slowed things a bit but then came the ?-nebraska act i think it was 1854 or something that brought up the issues again…& from there things grew into war. You claim that it was over states rights vs. government rights…you are correct, but the right to do what?? one of the main things was own slaves the South was heavily dependant on slaves & it was not only a moral issue but an economical issue…granted the average southerner could not afford to own slaves, but the south was still heavily dependant on agriculture(whereas the north was growing & moving towards industry) The majoirty of the souths economy was based on agriculture, so the ebolishment of slavery would have been a heavy blow to the souths economy. i’m done here…:drop the mic: ---
**Author:** ![pwtmxracing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@pwtmxracing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pwtmxracing)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/34 "2005-04-14T05:25:39Z")
> [@rookee](#): > > come back home then, we have that in fayette county :dunno: hey easy on fayette nam ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/35 "2007-04-18T18:14:27Z")
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**Author:** ![1320](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1320/32/5949_2.png) [@1320](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1320)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/36 "2007-04-18T18:28:40Z")
Wow, I wonder how many hits wikipedia got while people in this thread were trying to argue over this. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/37 "2007-04-18T18:30:34Z")
you sound guilty 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![PurpleMongoose](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purplemongoose/32/3349_2.png) [@PurpleMongoose](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PurpleMongoose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/38 "2007-04-18T20:34:21Z")
> [@Pic of my new car ..Snky](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pic-of-my-new-car-snky/12378/33): > > you forgot the all-NASCAR channel :doh: It seems to be 271 on my cable. ---
**Author:** ![Dominator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/39 "2007-04-19T05:35:54Z")
:picks up the mic: Eh, if the south would have won they would have gotten rid of slavery as well. Maybe not as soon, but that shit wouldn’t have lasted. Its pretty mean. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600/40 "2007-04-19T05:42:09Z")
> [@Need laptop fixed](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-laptop-fixed/29564/4): > > Its pretty mean. 🤣 understatement of the year [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wish-the-south-would-have-won-the-civil-war/173600.md?page=3)