[MikefromOhio]

And yet despite all of the supposed hypocrisy, the south continued to pursue their institution and even fought for it.

And yes, it’s great that the wannabe revisionist-confederates like to say it wasn’t about slavery but those are exactly the people, the slave-owners, who did not want to remain in the Union after Lincoln was elected.

Lincoln’s election in and of itself was just an excuse for these hotheads to think they had something and it ended up in over 500,000 deaths, 11 states getting ravaged by the war AND 50 years of economic destitution and repercussions that last even to this day. Nice going.

[central_va]

Too bad we got only 300,000 and not 3,000,000

               -- Maj. Randolph CSA

[central_va]

Lincoln’s election in and of itself was just an excuse for these hotheads to think they had something and it ended up in over 500,000 deaths, 11 states getting ravaged by the war AND 50 years of economic destitution and repercussions that last even to this day. Nice going.

And yet they keep coming. The South's demise was actually caused by the invention of Air Conditioning in the early 1960's, sissy Northerners could come South, pollute the southern body politic and live in Air Conditioned comfort........