You still spouting that crap? You know damn well it isn’t even close to being true.
“You still spouting that crap? You know damn well it isn’t even close to being true.”
It is mostly crap. The South was becoming an economic backwater compared to the North. They were falling behind in population and representation in Congress. The only way to keep up was creating more slave states to maintain some parity in the Senate. That was what States Rights were about. Expanding slavery into the territories. It was now or never for them.
It is absolutely correct. You just don't like it, and want it to not be true.