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Old 01-21-2008, 08:37 PM  
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I'm not old enough to remember the 60's...

But I'm thinking the ability to vote without harassment
50% the people don't vote. If you're under 30 is more like 80%. They went though al teh effort to make a constitutional admendment so those 18-20 could vote and they fucking don't do it anyways

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and the ability to sit wherever you want on the damn bus and drink out of whatever water fountain you want, and actually go _inside_ and sit at the counter in any restaurant without being tarred, feathered, and strung up by the local lynching squad... probably has a place in promoting a better "social" status, imho.

Maybe things were "better" in the Northern States... but I reckon that wasn't the case for the Southern counterparts...
All that would have ended eventually anyways. Just like slavery would have ended eventually even if the South had won the war. Economically slaves would have been more expensive when mechanical farm equipment became available. Not to mention the rest of the world would have eventually refused to strad with the CSA beacuse of slavery.
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