[BLOOD_kane]

Ok in no way am I racist (i have friends who are white, black, mexican, asian etc.) and I live in Texas but you have you see that the south at that time needed slaves...wether it was morally right or not is the debate. I dont think it was right (i mean owning another human?) but you gotta see that the south was full of Rich People (couldnt work), Poor white people (worked but still couldnt get shizzy) Average White Farmers without slaves who actually made a decent living. Now the last type of person there I listed werent too common. there were either mainly the rich slave owners or the poor white "crackers" as they were refered too (the rich people named them that) only the rich people owned slaves but for the southern economy to survive those slaves were needed.. Notice for at least 20 years after the civil war the southern economy was worse than Ethiopia's now. Only when the industries came in in the 1880's did it start to prosper again it took 20 years for them to recover!