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Instead of Austin, how about Obama, TX.?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3139284" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>And how did states rights cease to exist? The south basically took their ball and left the playground when Lincoln won the presidency, paving the way for the end of slavery. People claim the civil war was about this or that, but in the end it was slavery that the south refused to bend on. They saw the writing on the wall with the Kansas-Nebraska act and how it backfired for them. And the states still have rights, its one of the reasons we have to look up state laws when trying to carry across state lines. </p><p></p><p>I will agree that demolishing statues of Confederate leaders, renaming streets, etc is stupid. Regardless of their impact these people paved the way for these cities and states to exist. Regardless of the positive or negative that history has, it is what makes us who we are today. Just as all of my decisions, both good and bad, have forged me into who I am today, our nation's history is what makes it what it is today. Destroying reminders of that history doesn't change that history, it just puts it in the dark. And as the saying goes "He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3139284, member: 43724"] And how did states rights cease to exist? The south basically took their ball and left the playground when Lincoln won the presidency, paving the way for the end of slavery. People claim the civil war was about this or that, but in the end it was slavery that the south refused to bend on. They saw the writing on the wall with the Kansas-Nebraska act and how it backfired for them. And the states still have rights, its one of the reasons we have to look up state laws when trying to carry across state lines. I will agree that demolishing statues of Confederate leaders, renaming streets, etc is stupid. Regardless of their impact these people paved the way for these cities and states to exist. Regardless of the positive or negative that history has, it is what makes us who we are today. Just as all of my decisions, both good and bad, have forged me into who I am today, our nation's history is what makes it what it is today. Destroying reminders of that history doesn't change that history, it just puts it in the dark. And as the saying goes "He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it". [/QUOTE]
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