[georgiarat]

Respectfully disagree. Slavery was bad but was it worth over 1 million dead and the destruction of the South? A big part of the tensions were the north putting export tariffs on agricultural products produced in the South and import tariffs on good imported from Europe. These tariffs occurred after the Compromise of 1850 that gave non-slave states the majority in the Senate.

[Reily]

Ok why was a grown man under the thumb of another?

[DiogenesLamp]

It was worse than that. They had rigged other laws so that virtually all the production of the South funneled through the hands of New York and Washington DC. People do not look at this enough. Southern independence was going to cost New York and Washington DC around 230 million dollars per year in lost control over that money.

They launched that war to keep funneling the South's production through the hands of the Crony Capitalist "establishment". Same people we are fighting today.