[Mudboy Slim]

"In an excellent piece of historical research and economic exposition, two economics professors, Robert A. McGuire of the University of Akron and T. Norman Van Cott of Ball State University, have provided independent evidence for Thomas J. Dilorenzo’s thesis that tariffs played a bigger role in causing the Civil War than slavery."

IMHO as an unborn Kansan--LOL!!--All wars are about Power, and the Effete Elite in the North were fearin' the uppity-ness of the Effete Elite in the South, so the Power-Hungry EffeteElitists in the North used the morally-indefensible SlaveryIssue to skewer the EffeteElitists in the South.....thereby resulting in the needless deaths of many NON-EffeteElitists in both the North and South!!

I'd like to see anyone on either side of the North-South Issue to argue otherwise...MUD

[WhiskeyPapa]

I'd say: 'delete effete elites'.

Walt

[yankhater]

"All wars are about Power, and the Effete Elite in the North were fearin' the uppity-ness of the Effete Elite in the South, so the Power-Hungry EffeteElitists in the North used the morally-indefensible SlaveryIssue to skewer the EffeteElitists in the South.....thereby resulting in the needless deaths of many NON-EffeteElitists in both the North and South!!"

Great points Mudboy. That's an "effe-ciant" way to summarize what I have been saying all along.