That would have made an interesting episode

“As an Irish from Ireland that I state again,I will fight for liberty and freedom”
 
Why do I have the impression that Ireland is near-constantly involved in wars, revolutions, and militant political movements since the 16th-century “Tudor conquest of Ireland”?

@Background Pony #71B7  
Now listen well and listen good,the south was wrong to keep slavery as its main law and as an Irishman from Ireland,I’ll tell you to got back to your stupid KKK friends and As an Irish from Ireland that I state again,I will fight for liberty and freedom and that all men are created equal in the United States,Amen and God bless Ireland and America.
 
Sincerely the Irishman (2016).

Rainbow Dash: Don’t you EVER make me agree to do another skit written by Lyra, okay?

I read somewhere that george Washington led union troops in one battle (his ghost)

Funny, I typically see AJ as the one preferring firearms as her weapon of choice and Dash eschewing them in favor of getting in her foe’s face.
 
Here, it is the reverse.
 
The Union used cavalry sabers too you know?

AJ wouldn’t be a fan of the civil war era south. It was an agrarian society and that’s about the extent of their common ground.

@Background Pony Number 17  
+1!

What’s so civil about war anyway?

@Itsthinking  
But all women are NOT sisters, That would be WEIRD.

@Itsthinking  
War has no reason except this :the survivor is always the one fighting for what’s right.  
-Gregory in Gregory Horror Show Night 09 by Naomi Iwata

@Itsthinking  
well said.

@Background Pony #3C7C  
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”- Francois Fenelon

can we all at least agree that war sucks? regardless of the political opinions of the government on either side of the war the people that died were all americans.

@lazertomato  
This is true. The South WAS very dependent on slave labor to keep its plantations working. But that’s only half the reason (maybe 60% the reason, but whatever). The reality is, most white people in the south saw black people as inferior and feared the idea of equality.  
Just look at the next 100+ years and you’ll know that that’s true.  
Just look at the south today!

I just want to preface this by saying that I do not at all condone slavery. That being said, the South didn’t fight to keep it just because the liked having them around. Slavery was the only way for large plantations, on which large parts of the South relied, to be at all economically viable. It was a choice between cruelty and poverty.

@Background Pony #E92E  
And we’ll stomp it right the fuck back down.

Why are we talking about American history on a MLP post? C’MON PEOPLE!

The south shall rise again! RISE AGAIN!

@Aura  
Was well aware of nullification. But unlike apologists of the 20th century, I consider slavery the primary reason “state’s rights” were brought up.
 
From the very beginning the South was not friendly to the idea of integrating into the North socially, technologically, or politically, and that’s part of the reason why they lost. An agrarian economy that places emphasis on a decentralized government is pretty much the exact opposite of what you want during any war, and the American Civil War relied on mechanization and production, something the South severely lacked.

@Itsthinking  
States rights, along with Nullification, were highly debated right before the Civil War. What became the South believed that the power was held more by the individual states than the Federal government. The North believed that the Federal government had a higher say the same matters.
 
Nullification was one area of States vs. Feds that came up. South Carolina believed in states rights so much that, if a State didn’t agree with a bill or something passed by the Federal government, that State could nullify the law.
 
This is all a bit hazy since it was about 2 years since I took U.S. History. Check the Wikipedia page linked below. I glanced over it and believe it provides an accurate explanation –better than my own at least.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_Crisis

@ALIS  
States’ rights for what, exactly…?
 
That’s the question to ask people who say that.

@That one guy….
 
Nah slavery was the cake. They were pretty clear about that. It is people in this century eager to make the states rights icing the cake.

I’m fav’ing this image for the comments. I mean that in a good way.