Didn't know where to post this but man, I so get it.
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During the Civil War we were less than half our current size. Maybe even a third the size. I can find maps that show our size but none that actual say what our land area was. I could calculate it, but I'm not. Also, we had about 10% of our current population.
So yea, we were quite a bit smaller back then.
the population was also far more rural 1/3 of the entire population were farmers.
now 1% of the population is in farming.
But what about their clapback?! You weren't supposed to actually provide information to the contrary of their haughty and uninformed statement!!
Either way, I don't know what counts as huge. Even back then we still stretched from Maine to Florida to Texas, which is over 2500 miles at its longest. That's still pretty damn big. Still bigger than any country in Europe minus Russia.
I just wanted to give a comparison.
Was it still huge?