[fr_freak]

I generally find that there are two main groups of people who want to deny that the Civil War was fought due to slavery:

1) Leftist anti-Americans who want to diminish the sacrifice that white men made on behalf of black men, thereby eliminating any redemption this country might have earned for slavery.

2) Southerners who don't want to believe that their great-granddaddies fought to defend slavery. Granted, most Confederates didn't own slaves, and there was definitely a great amount of regional loyalty for even those Confederates who didn't like slavery, but had there never been slavery in the US, there never would have been a Civil War. Period.

[traderrob6]

I’m neither and I believe it was a states rights issue.