Nothing that you claim disputes what I said. It is unfortunate that you cannot accept FACTS without claiming it is "preaching".
Since you are impervious to information regarding these matters check the census of 1860 it supports what I have said 100%.
I am the least ideological person you can find and it isn't the "unthinking" which gets you in an uproar but the THINKING which undermines your carefully cherised mythology about the IGnoble Cause.
"I am the least ideological person you can find"
That certainly appears to be true regarding political matters in the present day. However, when it comes down to this particular, historical conflict, you are as ideological and partisan as they come.
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