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To: Rockingham
Picking and slinging about bit and pieces of opinion at the margins does not change the fact that slavery was the cause of secession, not tariff rates.

Willful denial and fanatical devotion to the propaganda taught in the government schools does not change the fact that slavery was not the cause of either secession or the war. Tariffs and unequal federal outlays were the primary causes.

417 posted on 03/27/2026 7:43:54 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

You miss. I was educated in Catholic schools up through HS, and then in a private university in the South, Tulane University, graduating with a degree in history after four years in a city (New Orleans) steeped in Southern history. The only “government school” I went to was the University of Florida College of Law.


418 posted on 03/27/2026 7:56:52 PM PDT by Rockingham
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