That is what I was taught in schools in California.
But then that was before the LBJ Democrats took over, and then their kids went from war protests to the halls of government.
The populist 1913 16th and 17th amendments mortally wounded the USA. It took a little less than 100 years for it to fall. It now is breathing it’s last gasps as it lays paralyzed on the ground, waiting for death.
The ‘bloody red flag’ of the north continued into the 60’s. It only ended when the population growth of the southern states became too much to be ignored, too powerful in Congress.