06-24-2015, 03:40 PM
(06-24-2015, 03:36 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Call my a cynic but it all comes down to money. People can say wars are for freedom or rights or god or country or magic beans as long as they put a nice spin on things, but it all comes down to money. The North was going to (short-term) torpedo their economic backbone...or maybe not, unlike a lot of people who complain about stuff I tend to admit I don't know a lot about anything.
That's exactly it, really. Southerners were not ready to give up the economic model they had relied upon for so long. Which is why you saw more rural areas like in WV and in my area where the majority didn't want secession. They didn't care so much because their economy was less reliant on it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
