>>11948465the founding fathers wanted to make the United States an aristocratic republic similar to how the Roman republic functioned. After independence, only land-owning freemen over a certain age (smth like 25 can't remember) had the right of vote. This was only 5% of the population. This ensured that you can only vote if you have an actual stake in the country (i.e. if you don't own land you have nothing tying you to the US). The continuous extension of suffrage in the US throughout 1850s-1970s led to what we have today, where a bunch of people who hate their country (i.e. leftie liberals) and non-citizens (states don't id you when you vote, which leads to liberals exporting Mexicans over the border so they can vote Democrat) voting on the matters of state.
>what was really lost in the warjust the fact the the North was more developed than the South. It has nothing to do with moral superiority, just different economic systems and the consequences of those. There was no incentive to industrialize in the South due to existing lucrative cash crops like cotton and tobacco. Economic development has nothing to do with moral superiority, despite what bigoted progressives want you to believe.
