Confederate Flag Misunderstood?

[BmorePat87]

(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.

No, that's correct. When someone says "the causes were states' rights and the economy", it was about a state's right to have slaves and the impact on the economy of the South if slaves were freed.