JC> JC> So, if you had been running the country in 1865, which of these three
  > > options would you have chosen when some of the Southern states left the
  > > Union?
JC> SB> Hmmm ... these were good questions, but I believe they would have had
  > SB> to be answered a few years earlier than 1865.
JC> So, make the year 1776... Would you have simply said: "O.K., there won't
  > be a United States. All the colonies are on their own."?
I'll answer the other questions later, when I have a little time to
think.  But you still haven't gotten it.  The South seceded after
Lincoln's election in 1860.  The Civil War was over by 1865.  (bratty
grin)
                         Sondra
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