06-25-2015, 11:27 AM
(06-25-2015, 07:50 AM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: this argument that southerners are painted in a way that is unflattering holds no water. All one needs to do is read what the southerner wrote to see that as far as the reasons for secession, it is the southerner that is working the revisionist history.
Yeah, there are some things I can see the southern viewpoint on, but the end point is that the secession occurred because of slavery. Any time they say that the issue was states' rights they are neglecting to mention it was the right to be a slave state that caused the whole debate.
That all being said, the war was bound to happen. There were too many cultural, ideological, and economic differences between the two halves of the country going back to the founding that were not reconciled well enough at that point. Much like the issue of slavery in and of itself the founders took the option of "let the people in the future deal with it."
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"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
