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Northern intransigence and Southern hardheadedness.

Brought about by Northern taxation, tariffs and hypocrisy:

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

              -- The "Illinois Butcher™"

Without the South, the USA would be a Socialist Marxist Country by now.

[Non-Sequitur]

Brought about by Northern taxation, tariffs and hypocrisy:

Nonsense.

What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery. -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention

Without the South, the USA would be a Socialist Marxist Country by now.

Without the rest of the country, the confederacy would be a totalitarian police state with socialist leanings by now.