Quote Originally Posted by MED View Post
I am a Colorado guy. However, seeing the state of the country 146 years after it ended, I side with the south.
While the issues have changed, the core problem is still the same - the federal government telling the states what they can and cannot do. The difference is now it's done via funding rather than direct mandates - blackmail: "if you take this $100B then you will have to permit gay marriage" kind of back room politics.

Something that always is interesting about the first civil war is that I honestly believe a second will come in my lifetime and much of what we learn about the first will be just as valid in the second.