This again avoids the question of what power the North was trying to excercise over the South that made it want to leave the Union. I would also point out that all governments have an "insatiable appetite for power" and the Confederacy seems to have been no exception, either.
Which illustrates, just as did the North keeping their slaves, that slavery had little to do with the fight.
You make it sound as if the North kept its slaves into the 1950s. Not so. Lincoln's decision to exclude the North from the emancipation proclaimation can be explained in any number of ways including the uncertain presence of Maryland in the Union and the fact that the Northern states were not in revolt. You'll notice, however, that after the war, slavery was banned by Constitutional Amendment in all states. If the Confederacy had been let go or had won, slavery would have continued in the South for an undeterminable period of time, but certainly longer.
Having prevented secession, and, by the barrell of a gun, dragged the South, bleeding, back into the Union; the North absurdly now refers to this as the "United States".
In my experience, most Southerners do not resent the United States being a single nation the way several Freepers do.
Why, do you think, is such a mis-representation called for?
I think there is mis-representation on both sides. To say that slavery wasn't an issue is as absurd as saying that it was the only issue. The desire to reduce the complex a historical events surrounding the Civil War to a single noble cause on one side or the other is not likely to lead anyone to the truth.
No doubt.
For whatever reasons one may choose to argue; none of them alter the fact that the Union was excluded from the Emanipation Proclaimation.
"You make it sound as if the North kept its slaves into the 1950s."
Do I really? Where?
"I think there is mis-representation on both sides."
I would agree. However, because 'they were doing it too' is hardly a reason to not question misrepresentation.
Why, do you think, is such a mis-representation(United States) called for?