A Very American Civil War: Let's hear your thoughts.

[Troll]

  Well, whatever you guys come up with, I think that it's obligatory that a Texas faction be included. The Republic would be more than happy to secede from the union at that time.

Yes, there would need to be a Republic of Texas, which even though it is in the American South it is very much it's own country. Also if the current Gov of Texas is an indication there are those who would secede from the USA today. (I suspect the rest of the country wouldn't fight to hard to keep them either)

[Phil Robinson]

Re an earlier post. Watch "Matewan" for flavour. Strike breaking, not a civil war but not far off.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Matewan-DVD-Chris-Cooper/dp/B00005A3Q5/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1240389288&sr=1-2

[Cory]

I think your right, Matewan is an excellent bit of flavor as well as a good movie.

Much of the crisis of the 30's are about traditional institutions appearing to unravel in the face of economic woes - and the union vs management conflicts in the US are an essential facet to this feeling of urgency as the strikes grow ever more violent.

[HerbyF]

Many corporations in the US at that time maintained Security(mercinaries) from some very shifty detective agencies. Didn't behave much different from the orginized crime gangsters.