Ask an American....

So California fought for the North ?

 

yes and no, yes because it was on the union side, no because it didnt send any units back east

 

in a way yes, because some soldiers went back east, and most went to new mexico and texas to protect it from the confederate people, i think.

 

So Californians have always been freeloaders ?

 

Did black Americans fight for the North ?

 

yes, they made a movie about it.

 

Glory ?

 

yes sir.

 

When did the American Civil War end ?

 

1865.

 

Why did it take 83 years to desegregate the Army ?

 

people back then saw the slaves as property.

 

^they still do in a lot of the south.

 

In 1948?

 

Yeah, Martin Luther King Jr. didn't come along until over a decade after that..

 

I was under the assumption that slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War , am I mistaken ?

 

oops, i misread what you said, but yes, even in 1948, ...desegregation is not that old in the US.

 

blacks weren't people until the 1950s because of bigots.

 

Perhaps I will end this particular line of questions , yes ?