• ripcord@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Can you explain that a little more? I’m guessing you meant secession, but even then I don’t get what you mean. Like, they seceded but the topic would be about WHY they did that.

        But I’m probably missing something.

        • Match!!@pawb.social
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          4 months ago

          my fucking midwestern education was like that. the textbooks said that there was an open question about whether states have the right to secede from the union as if the Confederacy was just Just Asking Questions

    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I had struggled with AP Euro in high school and had decided to just take regular US history the following year. Absolute mistake. My teacher was the football coach and was a huge proponent for the ‘states rights’ BS. This was in one of the better funded school districts in SoCal.

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      Weird we learned that it was states rights to own people in VA Middle School and how the plantation system worked