Why is it so many southerners are obsessed with claimming the Civil War wasn't about Slavery? Let's face it, if those guys were crusading for State's Rights, they wouldn't have voted for the Fugitive Slave Act, or would have at least seceded from the Union right then, rather than impose slavery on northern states like that. Hard not to view it as propaganda, along the lines of today's pols that are all for state's rights or home rule till they get elected to Congress or the State house and get a taste of power and the joy of cramming their assorted pet beliefs down everyone's throat. Does this position date back to Civil War, as a way to get all the non-slave holders to show up? or is it a post-war invention, allowing descendents to distance themselves from the issue, while holding on to their reverence for their bellicose ancestors, in much the same way as most Northerners focus on the ending slavery part and ignore the "for the Union" issue.
2007-04-04
18:30:40
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