Splitting a Nation

This isn’t a history blog, so I won’t address the issue at length. But I would be remiss were I not to at least note that today marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of America’s bloody Civil War. The Philadelphia Inquirer offers a succinct remembrance of this occasion. Meanwhile, both Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly and MyDD’s Charles Lemos wonder at a new CNN poll showing that issues related to that long-ago conflict “still divide the public.”