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Old 08-10-2003, 09:01 PM
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Ok here is a topic everyone can understand on why the south seceded. Today in California they have a big budget crisis and lets say for arguments sake that the US Government imposed a tariff that only affected the state of Maine i.e. the export of Lobsters to help California balance their budget on the money earned by Maine Lobster Fishermen. Now if you lived in Maine would you think that a fair arangement that a special Tax i.e. Tarriff was imposed just on you to help another state balance their budget? well thats one of the things the Northern Indutrialist did to the Agriculture based economy of the southern states. They imposed high tarrifs on all agriculture products shipped to England (who payed more for cotten then the textile mills of PA)Then when the South decided to take their ball and go home old Abe was in a pickle he couldn't let his Ill. constituents down when La. decided to tax all goods heading up the Mississippi river thru La. So Abe told the wayword states they could come back into the union and keep thier slaves but, the Southern States wanted some Tax relief and didn't get any and the rest is history .
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