{"id":11501,"date":"2018-11-06T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T19:48:22","slug":"the-issues-that-tore-us-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-issues-that-tore-us-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Issues That Tore Us Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">S<\/span>lavery was the issue that blew up America in 1861 and led to the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>But for the 85 years between the nation\u2019s founding and that war, it had seemed that somehow America could eventually phase out the horrific institution and do so largely peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>But by 1861, an array of other differences had magnified the great divide over slavery. The plantation class of the South had grown fabulously rich \u2014 and solely dependent \u2014 on King Cotton and by extension slave labor. It bragged that it was supplying the new mills of the industrial revolution in Europe and had wrongly convinced itself that not just the U.S. but also Britain could not live without Southern plantations.<\/p>\n<p>Federal tariffs hurt the exporting South far more than the North. Immigration and industrialization focused on the North, often bypassing the rural, largely Scotch-Irish South, which grew increasingly disconnected culturally from the North.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/divisive-political-issues-immigration-race-globalization\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Slavery was the issue that blew up America in 1861 and led to the Civil War. But for the 85 years between the nation\u2019s founding and that war, it had seemed that somehow America could eventually phase out the horrific institution and do so largely peacefully. But by 1861, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1132,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Zv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11512,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-present-american-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":0},"title":"The Present American Revolution","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The revolution of 1776 sought to turn a colony of Great Britain into a new independent republic based on constitutionally protected freedom. It succeeded with the creation of the United States. The failed revolution of 1861, by a slave-owning South declaring its independence from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Left&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Left","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-left\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10586,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10586-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":1},"title":"09\/15\/2017 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"09\/15\/2017 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Sam Davidson Victor, I enjoy reading your articles in the National Review. I never understood why this country has statues that honor people that took up arms against the United States. I do not think there are any statues honoring Lord Cornwallis, General\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11366,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ideology-of-statue-smashing\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":2},"title":"The Ideology of Statue Smashing","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down \u201cSilent Sam,\u201d a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1521,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/interview-with-blog4history\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":3},"title":"Interview with Blog4History","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson www.blog4history.com B4H:\u00a0As you stated in your book\u00a0The Father of Us All\u00a0war is rarely the result of miscommunication or misunderstanding. However, why was B.H. Liddell Hart wrong to state that \u201cWar is always a matter of doing evil in hope that good may come of it?\u201d You\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;July 2010&quot;","block_context":{"text":"July 2010","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2010\/july-2010\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10598,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strange-case-of-confederate-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":4},"title":"The Strange Case of Confederate Cool","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Leftists love Johnnie Reb in movies and songs. But statues? Not so much. How exactly did the Left romanticize the Lost Cause Confederacy, and by extension its secession and efforts to preserve slavery? To use a shopworn phrase, \u201cIt\u2019s complicated.\u201d Good Ol\u2019 Rebels Well\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The South&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The South","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-south\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11067,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-confederate-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11501,"position":5},"title":"The Confederate Mind","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren resurrect the race-based thinking of the antebellum South: \u2018One drop\u2019 and you\u2019re a bona fide minority. Senator Elizabeth Warren has doubled down on her insistence that she is Native American. 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