[QUOTE="thepwninator"][QUOTE="BranKetra"] I guess if I were in charge, I would've worked on technology or something, rather than stealing people and growing them like livestock.BranKetra

[QUOTE="fidosim"] Slaves made up a significant portion of the population, and the agrarian economy of the south depended on cheap labor provided by the sizeable slave population. Politically, the ideology espoused by Jefferson, antifederalism, was greatly revered in the South. From the founding, the south advocated Jeffersonian ideals over federalist ideals such as those held by Madison or Hamilton.BranKetra

[QUOTE="Gs4u2"]Thats like asking why rich Northern buisnessmen didn't work in their own factories.BranKetra

The sad thing about this board is that for every 2 smart posters' there's 200 dense ones.

The North waved the American flag for close to 100 years, while taking part in slavery. This goes for the KKK, too.

The only reason Lincoln freed southern slaves was to win the war, while northern slaves kept a pickin' (the Emancipation Proclomation wasn't even ratified until Lincoln's death).

People's views of the South are greatly skewed.

I bet you think we all walk around in potato sacks and chew tabacco, too.

Somewhere not caring about the situation. And I still don't care.

BR1NG3R