# Myths about America

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> [@JoesTypeS](#):
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> The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War.
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> Source: US Treasury Department

Fucking Lincoln.  
Letting the South secede would have made things so much better today. We’d all live in the United Blue States of America, and the Confederate Red States could do whatever they pleased.

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