Did I say something that was incorrect?
Was the south run be democrats then? Yes. Did the Confederates launch an attack on an American base? Yes. Did over 600,000 people die as a result of that war? Yes.
If I misunderstood your comment, then I apologize.
Here’s where you are incorrect, the Democrats were pro states rights at the time, which happens to be the only issue that was transferred from the Democrat party to the Republican party eventually... The confederate soldiers were not involved in the politics of it. They were simply defending their homes. They weren’t some merry band of fighting democrats who went around waging war on anyone... And only about 1% of them even had family who owned slaves. So it had nothing to do with politics to most of those fighting, but everything to do with duty and honor.
You see, to many of the leaders, they weren’t waging war on an American base, they were defending against an invasion of a foreign nation....because they had already seceded.... Now, if you want to discuss the merits against secession, you may be on to something, but during that time period, the idea of the right of secession was a universal one....even the northern states recognized that right in the years prior when they, themselves, threatened to secede when legislation didn’t go as they wanted.... My point is that it is wrong to pin a motive on a group when history is clear that is not true...the confederates were not waging war on their own nation..., they were protecting from invasion and that led to war. If you read diaries of southerners and diaries of northerners at the time, you’ll see a huge communication gap between the two...not between governing officials, but regular people... Their understanding of the war and what it was about was completely different.