... South of the deep running passion for college football down here.  To do that, a little history lesson is required.

About 150 years ago they had this little spat called "The Civil War."  Actually, spat is an understatement.  It was about as nasty a war as it gets.  The carnage was unimaginable.   The South had better soldiers, but the North had more of them, and they had the manufacturing and logistical advantage, which in the end wins most wars.  

Today, the Civil War is mostly talked about in terms of the racial divide that was mainly a trigger for the event, not the main source of the conflict.  For Southerners, it was about control.  Southerners wanted it, and the federal government had it.

The North won t...

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