If Donald Trump was a political figure in the mid nineteenth century

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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	he would have sympathized with the north
	1 (33%)
	he would have sympathized with the south
	2 (67%)
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[madokie]

1. He'd a been hung for treason

[zipplewrath]

2. He's a New Yorker

He would have been allied with the north. Besides, they had more money and he'd a gotten into the arms business. Probably would have gone carpet bagging too.

[thucythucy]

8. Possibly. But plenty of New Yorkers were southern sympathizers

the mayor going so far (in 1861) as to suggest that NYC secede and become a city state.

Plenty of racists too, as the 1863 draft riots demonstrated. Troops that had fought at Gettysburg had to be brought in to restore order after days of rioting and lynching, which included a white mob burning down a black orphanage.

I'm sure, at the least, Trump would have seen "good people" on both sides.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. He would have found a way to profit

from the suffering of others.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Since he is incapable of sympathy, he would merely have followed the money...

and then lost most of it.

[Wounded Bear]

5. He's a Northerner, more money there...

the original MIC started in the Civil War. Lincoln tried to warn us, but then he got shot.

Much of the wealth exploited in the last half of the 19th Century had roots in the explosive growth of business during the Civil War. Many people don't realize that the transcontinental railroad, one of the earliest major transportation efforts, was initiated during the Civil War. One of the methods for building the Western rail net was giveaways of land for rights of way, in some cases swaths of land hundreds of miles wide. Land speculation was rife and opportunities for graft were widespread.

Trump would have been right at home.

[Xipe Totec]

6. He would have scammed both sides. nt

[unblock]

7. "my snake oil is the best! the best snake oil east of the rio grande! and probably west, too!"

[Snake Plissken]

9. He would have been tarred and feathered by the people he ripped off

Lawyers wouldn't be able to protect a deadbeat con man like Trump back then