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Highly recommend Colorado, it's beautiful and the people are good too.
We just let the south stay the same after the civil war, that's our mistake.
Lived there for a little while when I was younger loved it
It took my pacifistic ass years to see the truth of that.
When you take down a regime that bases itself on such anti-social behavior as chattel slavery, you really need to end it as completely as a termite infestation. Just one of them able to come into power again is all it takes to roll everything back.
Every single person involved should have faced federal prosecution, permanently lost their right to vote, and the states on a probationary "no vote" federal oversight where the government re-educated the idea of black property out of their fool heads before the they could be treated as states again.