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>The material superiority of the North was bought using resources extracted from the far more Conservative (and by relation, productive) Southern States.
>The secession of the Southern States was the equivalent of tearing a leech off, and put the North on a time limit before the parasites lack of ability to sustain itself without taking from the productive caused it to starve.
>The leeching North could only reattach itself by zerg-rushing countless men into the South.
>As Ayn Rand described, even the parasites means of leeching off of us is dependent on our own creation and innovation.