Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  (CNN) Sezvo vokuAmerica vachipemberera gore rechi150 rokufa kwaAbraham Lincoln vhiki ino, ngatiyeukei kuti haasi wezera bedzi, asiwo, nenzira chaiyo, weIllinois. Nhaka mbiri huru dzaLincoln - mubatanidzwa usingaparadzanisiki uye rusununguko rusingachinjiki - dzakakura nenzira yomuzvarirwo kubva kumidzi yake yokuMidwestern. Iye aiziva zvakananga kuti hapana muganhu unodzivirirwa waidzivirira nyika yechibage kubva kunyika yekotoni. Nharaunda yacho yose kubva kuAppalachians kusvika kuRocky Mountains yaifambiswa nomurwizi rwaMississippi, zvichiita kuti varimi vaiva mudziva iri rakakura vatakurire zvinhu zvavo kumusika vachipfuura nomuNew Orleans uye kubva ipapo vachienda kunyika yose. Nokudaro aisagona kutongobvumira simba rinogona kuva rinovengana kudzora iyi nzvimbo ine ngozi zvikurukuru, kana kuti Dixie zvikurukuru. Nyika yeU.S., akasimbirira kudaro, "yakanyatsokodzera kuva musha wemhuri imwe yenyika; uye haina kunyatsokodzera kuva nemhuri mbiri, kana kuti dzakawanda" nemhaka yokuti "hapana mutsetse, wakarurama kana kuti wakakombama, wakakodzera muganhu wenyika wokuparadzanisa nawo". Lincoln akawedzera chidzidzo chake cheMidwestern geography nechisarudzo cheMidwestern pamusoro penhoroondo yebumbiro remitemo: "The Union yakare kudarika chero ipi zvayo yeNyika; uye chaizvoizvo, yakavasika seNyika". Lincoln akanga asingadi kuita uku kutaura kunopokanidza kuti aratidze nhau yake, uye pane imwe nzvimbo akasimbisa pfundo rinokosha rapamutemo rokuti rugwaro rweBumbiro rinorambidza zvakajeka kuparadzana kworutivi rumwe. Bumbiro remitemo nguva dzose uye munzvimbo iri yose mutemo mukuru wenyika - pasinei nokuti imwe nyika inoti chii. Asi kutaurazve kwaLincoln kwokuti Union yakasika nyika, kwete kuti United States yakasikwa neUnited States, kwakakonzera kusabvumirana kwakasimba mune dzimwe nzvimbo dzenyika. VaVirginia vazhinjisa, kubatanidza mukuru mukuru weConfederate Robert E. Lee, vakasimbirira kuti Virginia zvamazvirokwazvo yakanga yatanga! Pakatanga Kupandukira kweAmerica, Old Dominion yakanga yatova nezana ramakore nehafu. Zvizvarwa zvevaLee zvakanga zvabatsira kutonga Virginia nguva refu United States isati yaberekwa. Asi kana Lee akanga ari, pakutanga uye nguva dzose, muVirginia, Lincoln akanga ari muAmerica. Baba vake vakabva ku...
Akhil Amar: Nhaka mbiri huru dzaLincoln, dzokuchengeta mubatanidzwa pamwe chete uye kubvisa uranda, dzakanga dzine midzi yokuMidwest. Lincoln akaona hurumende yemubatanidzwa seyakakurumbira uye akatenda kuti pakanga pasina muganhu unonzwisisika wokuparadzanisa U.S.