[To Hell With Poverty]

It was mostly about states rights. Now we see the country beginning to tear apart again due to the same issue. Unless things change drastically and soon we will likely see the North and South separate again in our lifetime.

I'm a Yankee who has spent most of my life in the South. I have been persuaded to the States Rights origin theory but believe slavery is what brought the wrath of God down upon the South. It will be States Rights again, with sodomite marriage bringing the wrath upon the North this next go round.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes the North is pretty much now a Communist stronghold. At some point part of the rest of the country is going to de-couple. My guess is Texas, Utah, Idaho maybe AZ and then most of the old confederacy except for NC which is currently in flux trying to get back red from blue.

[DiogenesLamp]

I'm a Yankee who has spent most of my life in the South. I have been persuaded to the States Rights origin theory but believe slavery is what brought the wrath of God down upon the South. It will be States Rights again, with sodomite marriage bringing the wrath upon the North this next go round.

Every state had legal slavery in 1776. Presumably God would have objected just as much then as he would in 1861, yet the US won independence from Britain none the less.

I know that if you had asked a Northern soldier in 1861 why he was fighting, he would have told you "because they attacked Ft Sumter." If you had asked a Southern soldier in 1861 why they were fighting, he would have replied "Because they invaded our homeland."

I don't think "Slavery" was much of a consideration for either one of them until much later in the war.