[cowboyway]

As a southerner who understands that slavery was the primary reason for the southern states to leave the Union

You don't sound like much of a Southerner. You say that you went to school in Austin? Austin is the liberal bastion of Texas, isn't it?

For a guy with two degrees, you're 'understanding' of the primary reason for Southern secession is proof that the liberal indoctrination at the liberal school where you matriculated was a success.

Take some time from filling in for the recently departed non-sequitur and read this:

Why The War Was Not About Slavery

[trumandogz]

Why is it you posted an article entitled “Why the War was not about Slavery” when my argument was that the reason for secession was slavery?