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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:46 AM
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Are there any countries in the world right now nearing a status of civil war?
Apart from Iraq?
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:47 AM
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1. Yes!
The United States of America
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:48 AM
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2. Yep - it will be urban vs. rural
Which means the lines are more ideological than territorial.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:52 AM
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3. T. F.O.S. n/t
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 11:59 AM
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4. People usually don't fight unless money is involved.
When money becomes an issue, people are going to fight. Otherwise, people will not go to war over social wedge issues like abortion and gay rights. People will go to war though over the perceived lack of control of the allotment of resources inside government. The Civil War had a very large economic motivator for war: Namely the preservation of a multi-billion dollar (in today's dollar value) slave trade.

Economic issues can lay the groundwork for a civil war, but until that foundation is laid, people are rather prone to accept cultural differences between the various regions of the country than go to war or talk openly about secession.
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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 12:24 PM
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5. The importation of slaves into the US ended in 1808. The domestic
slave trade continued until the Civil War and was still a huge economic consideration.

I agree that economics plays a large part of civil strife. It may manifest itself as ethnic, racial or religious divisions but is usually caused by economics.
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