Modern Imperialism
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Wouldn’t northerner probably have more stable and secured lives especially in rural areas? The city seems to be rough up north but the rural areas seem rather pleasant by the standards of the period up there? I’m suggesting southerners more constant interactions with violence and being more inclined to act on it leads to them being much more well verse in matters of martial combat? The best push for innovation is necessity? If they are constantly dealing with much more violence at home after independence wouldn’t your average southerner feel more numb and knowledgeable in it then people up north. Rural areas in the south could still be having duels and blood feuds while Midwest just has peaceful German farmers who own a small bit of land. Rural people in the north seem more like middle class farmers and not poor ones like the south. Also if your people are still dealing with blood feuds and tribal like warfare at home(at least in the early years of the country) wouldn’t that make them better at using weapons? I’m pretty sure those people are learning better combat skills then an average city thug? It’s like comparing settle people to nomads. Nomads while smaller in number probably on average have better survival skills then most settled people just due to the fact they needed it to survive while settle people do not. If I live in Michigan I don’t have to worry about my rival and his friends coming to my homestead to rob and shoot me like I do in Texas or Appalachia? Rural crime is common in the south but it often goes unreported or monitored. These people are more left on their own while people in the union not so much. I’m asking won’t they(poor whites) be better at combat due to the simple fact violence is so much part of their daily lives learning to use a gun and fight is a common trait because if you don’t you could have a higher chance of dying? While in the union that is much less of a issue in most places?Lincoln's Loyalists calculates that 10% of all draft age white men from Confederate states served in the Union Army. Estimates are that between 1/4 and 1/3 of all whites in the Confederate states were pro-Union. Plus a little under 40% of the OCnfederate population were slaves, who definitely did not support the Confederate regime. By then end, the Confederates were arming child soldiers and the elderly, but Confederate generals were surrendering in direct defiance of Jefferson Davis' orders and Davis estimated that half of all Confederate soldiers deserted.
The rest of your post reads like regurgitated NeoConfederate propagands. I am baffled as to why you think educating people makes them worse soldiers - nothing in history supports that position. Poor Confederate whites were working to survive, but so were poor Union citizens. Plantation owners were not teaching their heirs to survive off the land - they were parasites living off of the sweat and blood of black people. They didn't even have to exert themselves to whip those slaves, that was the job of hired overseers. Plantation owners were not teaching their heirs to be modern knights, either, unless your idea of knighthood is a bunch of drunken brats riding down unarmed black civilians who were tying to escape on foot.
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