From: "Robert Comer" 

> This northerner neither forgets nor feels the least bit triumphant
> about our own civil war, which was a tragedy all around.

There's definitely exceptions to the rule!  I really didn't think about it
other than as part of school history myself until I moved here to South
Carolina and found out just how much it's ingrained into society here.
Historical sites are so plentiful that they can't help but remember here,
but it's more than just that.

> And at that, we were "lucky" -- I think we tend to underestimate how
> much the civil wars in Russia 1918-1922 and China 1937-1949
> contributed to the nature of the regimes that emerged from them.
> Communist "class struggle" would have been a lousy starting point in
> any case, but the civil wars (and attending disease, famine, foreign
> interventions, etc.) made it even harsher and bloodier.

We had our own set of problems here too.

--
Bob Comer


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote:
>
>>Southerner
>>USA people tend to think of it as bad while northerners don't even think
>>about it, as an example...
>
> This northerner neither forgets nor feels the least bit triumphant
> about our own civil war, which was a tragedy all around.
>
> And at that, we were "lucky" -- I think we tend to underestimate how
> much the civil wars in Russia 1918-1922 and China 1937-1949
> contributed to the nature of the regimes that emerged from them.
> Communist "class struggle" would have been a lousy starting point in
> any case, but the civil wars (and attending disease, famine, foreign
> interventions, etc.) made it even harsher and bloodier.

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