Maybe the USA also collapsed?
Good point. But it would have to be of a far lesser nature than the CSA's.
...wait, pardon?
Didn't the Americans mostly come from that very same Europe? (Over two thirds of the way through that thousand years of crushed peasant revolts.)
To ESCAPE that world. Left to their own affairs for 150 years, learning for themselves the joys of freedom unknown in the Old World, only in 1763 to find the Old World trying to rule the Colonies directly from their own capitol 3000 miles away. The local yokels no like.
Their chosen option was to ELECT their leaders, not suffer the rule of "Divine Right". And if they made mistakes, said rulers could always be removed.
As I said, the radical(ized) working class of the USA simply doesn't exist here. I wish it did, but it doesn't. Prevent the risings of Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson (except on all things touching race), and every Democrat since FDR and you'll have your American working class radicalism. And the rise of the Socialist Party and the death of the Republican Party.
I've also heard of this thing called the Gilded Age. It was, as I understand it, somewhat unpleasant.
But that lasted from, say, from 1877 to 1901. 24 years. Not exactly long enough to stamp on a nation's psyche. And trust me, Americans know nothing about all those peasant revolts, beyond "thank God our ancestors were smart enough to get out of that!"
The Middle Ages last from 476 to 1513. 1037 years. So I really don't think you want to start measuring w***s

Yeah, but they were smart enough to leave.
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Or took off in the face of chaos.
I guess the way we can think about it is their ancestors kicked our ancestors out.
Or our ancestors figured they could do better in a land where you could actually get ahead.
Or in my ancestors' case, just really bad at growing potatoes.
Now, now. The Potato Blight was no more the fault of Irish farmers than the Boll Weevil was for American farmers.
We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?...
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1) You butchered the wording
2) I really don't think most of the people here have seen "Stripes"
Well, there is that, but ... they were smart enough to go somewhere where they DIDN'T have to grow potatoes - they could grow, um, beans, instead!
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They could grow anything the latitudes, rainfall, and soil would support. Which was...a lot.
