Talk:Hartford Convention
From Academic Kids
While a marxist (i.e. economic and power driven) historical perspective is certainly important when discussing the Hartford Convention, this article could really, really talk about the non-economic factors that contributed to it's conception and why it was bad. At the least, someone needs to discuss the changes in national unity (or rather, it's shift from non-existence to existence) that make the event make sense in the broader context. I'll do this eventually, but feel free to beat me to it. --Shanoyu 08:44, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Cultural differences and the Hartford Convention
I would love to see the article include informed reasoning about how the Hartford Convention was as much or more rooted in culture than economic forces. The economic forces are to me more objective and quantifiable, and hence relatively easy to address.
It is important to address the cultural differences that would make New England see itself as a separate culture. Obviously, most discussions of sucession/disunion and also the idea of a part of the nation having a separate and unique culture have of necessity centered around the South. It would be good to see it shown persuasively that succession as an idea was not solely a Southern, or even Southern-originated, idea.
