Says the mouthpieces of the people who were saved by the war from huge economic losses and who have been running the nation ever since keep telling us, but the evidence doesn't really support this claim. Liberals today are still calling anyone who disagrees with them a "racist", which is just a left over from the propaganda of the Civil War.
As has been mentioned countless times, slavery was legal in the Union, and Lincoln offered to protect it even more than it had ever been protected before by urging the passage of the Corwin Amendment.
Throwing off the chains of a tyrannical hereditary monarchy is in no way the same as taking up arms in a violent secession against a duly elected government...
A tyranny through democracy is no different than a tyranny through monarchy, if you are one of the people who are suffering under it. Also, the secession wasn't violent until Lincoln sent warships to Charleston with orders to *FORCE* them to accept his diktat that their land would remain occupied by *his* forces.
The truth is that New York and Washington DC had rigged the laws so that New York controlled almost all of the Southern export trade, and Washington DC was receiving 73% of it's total tax (tariff) revenue from the Southern states. These two cities were making more money off of the Southern export trade than the people actually growing, harvesting, and selling the product to Europe.
I've read articles that said nearly 60% of the money went to New York, and of course Washington DC took it's bite right out off of the Top.
They would have us believe that the war was about something that was going to continue indefinitely without the war, because the truth, that they launched that war to protect the financial interests of the wealthy and powerful in the North East, doesn't sound so good to the average person.
And those same arrogant bastards in the North East who buy congressmen by the dozen, are still funneling all the nation's money through their pockets, and they are *still* controlling the media to spread their propaganda.