A new bid to place a measure on the ballot that would ask California voters to approve the state's secession from the U.S. has been cleared for signature gathering.
    • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
      8•3 months ago

      Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries… (sorry, I’m not american)

      • @AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
        1•3 months ago

        This was RIGHT before the industrial revolution in America. The timing of industrialization going north because the south was utterly burned to the ground was a massive shock that is still felt today. They couldn’t switch to industrialization in time

    • @ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      A huge reason the south lost was because they were NOT an economic powerhouse…

      Much like today.