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[risk]

Would ya'll like to explain this?

1976 Election: blue=republican.
(Later the Dems wised up and decided they didn't like red, eh?)

[Kileab]

Revisionist history is what has caused people to believe the Civil war was about slavery. When it was only part of the overall issue of states rights.

Slavery was fading out in the southern states until the invention of the Cotton Gin which made it profitable again.

Also the south is constantly portrayed as evil for fighting this war for slavery but hardly a word is mentioned of the rape of the southern economy by the north during reconstruction. A travesty from which the south has just begun to recover from in the last 20 years.

[KC_Conspirator]

The most intelligent and factual post on FR that I have seen regarding this subject in quite some time.

[HamiltonJay]

Uh.... Since you studied the war so lengthely and lovingly please tell me why, just out of Curiosity that Maryland was indeed a slave state, and yet was on the Side of the Union... as I believe was West Virginia as well... and that not only this, but that Lincolns Emancipation Proclomation made sure to only "free" slaves in territories currently in rebellion with the union?

I will not sit here and naively say that slavery had no place or was not part of the war, but to idly and casually say it was the main and only point of the war is ignorant. Terriff of Abomination, the Nullifiers movement etc etc etc... The north and south were on path to war beyond just the issue of slavery.

[cookcounty]

Revised version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in which the Union troops marched off singing

"As He died to make men holy,
Let us die to keep tariffs high......."

[Caipirabob]

I bet a Yankee wrote this. ; p