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CSA, without question. With SA number two.

The Republic of Texas, while slave-owning, really did nothing - there is no way they deserve inclusion in that list. Kind of insulting to them, really.

Rex, that statement about the CSA is not remotely true. The war was about the slaves, pure and simple. There's a darn good reason why each and every document of secession mentions it as the reason, and not one has "state's rights" or "Northern Oppression" as the reason. Quite frankly, anything besides slavery is a "Confederate Apologist" way of thinking - disturbingly common in the USA, especially the south, and not at all true.

That statement about apartheid, Rex, is a bit racist, quite honestly. Africans are no more "violent" than anyone else. And no, it was not just "segregation," as Local noted.

There is a major difference between cultural segregation, and forced segregation. Cultural is when different groups stay apart, preferring the company of their own cultural group and their own ways of life. Forced is when these groups are forced to stay in certain areas, do certain things, and are barred politically from doing anything else. Moreover, the former is not actually called by that word, either.

Don't be so sure to say that they would have done away with it. Industrialization is actually possible with slaves, and even keeping them, just somewhat less efficient than free people. And Lee was on the fence/did not care about the concept, not entirely in favor of it.