Re: Secessionists still alive in the American political landscape
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The civil war was not about slavery, contrary to popular myth.
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I always chuckle when I hear this. It would be unrecognizable to the people who led secession. They considered slavery the foundation of their unique society, and were very explicit in saying secession was the only way to save slavery, and ergo, their way of life.
True, the North's fight was not directly about slavery, but the Confederacy's was. And it was primarily slavery that originally made the regions different, and quarrelsome.
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