[Kalamata]

>>Vermont Lt wrote (#194): “(You might want to work on your “old man on the porch” attitude. People might think you are a pompous ass.)"
>>Pelham wrote: "You were the one bitching at me for having posted the thread as if you are being forced to read it. I was minding my own business. Someone here may be acting like an ass, it’s just not me."

One of the most revealing statements from the book is this:

"The question becomes even more perplexing when we consider another startling fact. Only 316,632 Southerners owned slaves – a mere 6 percent of the total white population of 5,582,322. These figures become doubly baffling when a further analysis reveals only 46,214 of these masters owned 50 or more slaves, entitling them to the aristocratic-sounding term, "planter." Why did the vast majority of the white population unite behind these slaveholders in this fratricidal war? Why did they sacrifice over 300,000 of their sons to preserve an institution in which they apparently had no personal stake? "

[Thomas J. Fleming, "A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War." De Capo Press, 2013, Preface]

Perhaps the war was not so much about slavery, but rather about not wanting to be ruled [that is, "programmed"] by a bunch of progressive busybodies. Frankly, I cannot find a dimes worth of difference between the modern "progressive" busybodies, and the Yankee busybodies of the antebellum North.

Mr. Kalamata

[Vermont Lt]

You see, this is the reason we should stop this civil war shit.

[OIFVeteran]

By Jove, you’ve cracked the case Kalamata. Or maybe not.

State Total-Pop. Slaves %of slave owning families
Georgia 82,548 29,264 34.5
North Carolina 395,005 100,783 25.5
South Carolina 249,073 107,094 43.0
Virginia 747,550 292,627 39.1

This also doesn’t account for all the people involved in the slave business that might not of owned slaves. Overseers, auctioneers, etc.

It appears that slavery was deeply entrenched in the southern states.