I've got a similar anecdote from when I was around the same age. When I first heard about the American Civil War and the idea of the South seceding from the uni

I've got a similar anecdote from when I was around the same age. When I first heard about the American Civil War and the idea of the South seceding from the union, I had just seen this cartoon [1] and thought that they literally took a saw through the Mason-Dixon line to physically separate the regions, and the South would just float away. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0g98&ab_channel=fukTroll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0g98&ab_channel=fukTr...