A previous debate brought up this question from me. In an another debate somewhere else...I remembered my idea of when this occured, for Southerners at least.

In 1898 the U.S. Congress removed the following Section of the 14th Amendment....

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

When this occured an injustice was righted and Southerners became as one with the North. It allowed this nation to become a world power and go on to protect the world from some of the worst evils ever known.

This is my opinion. Some may think we never became united or have ever been united. What do you think?

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David Upton