[dangus]

Right. Kansas’ admission to the union was what triggered the war. Not Arizona, not New Mexico. Kansas. And California’s central valley relies on immigration to provide CONSISTENT water supply, but that doesn’t mean they can produce nothing without immigration. The fact that their income would swing wildly depending on drought years and prosperous years only tips the balance ever moreso towards slave agriculture. And then there’s Washington, Oregon, Nebraska...

[DiogenesLamp]

Right. Kansas’ admission to the union was what triggered the war.

Why? Did you see how very little cotton can be produced in Kansas? And look at the region in which it would have been produced in 1860. It would have been far away from any transport system. Again, not economically viable, and so there would have been few (if any) actual slaves in Kansas.

But the shift in power caused by Kansas voting to be a slave state would have been enormous. The fight over Kansas was really a fight over Washington DC power.

Let me give you a more recent example. Bret Kavanaugh. Do you think Liberals opposed him because they believe he assaulted a woman 30 years ago? Or do you believe they opposed him because they saw him as a shift in the power of the Courts?

Bill Clinton provably assaulted and raped many women, but the left didn't care about that because he was on their side. What they care about is *POWER*. It's all they care about. This was the case with Kansas. It was about *POWER* in Washington DC. Nothing else.

And California’s central valley relies on immigration to provide CONSISTENT water supply, but that doesn’t mean they can produce nothing without irrigation.

Back in 1860, they could not only not grow cotton, they would have had a hard time shipping it to the mills of Europe, or even the Mills of New England.

The whole thing was an astro turf ruse to get people stirred up, not unlike BLM and George Floyd. Liberals pull these stunts to gain power in Washington DC, and that is the only reason why they do it.

There was never going to be any significant slavery in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, or anywhere else. It didn't work economically, but this didn't stop them from using it to hold onto power in Washington DC, because this group of people were making huge amounts of money by controlling DC power, and *THAT* is why they agitated on these issues.

The "Free Soil Party" was headquartered in New York city, not Kansas. It was a thousand miles away from the "soil" it claimed to be concerned about.