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My family fought for the South in the famous Yankee War of Aggression. For you to write that the South collapsed at the first signs of hardship is most laughable, and damn near insipid on your part. While there were many reasons for the war, few in the South owned slaves, or even wanted to own slaves. Most Rebels went to war to end the Yankee trade imbalances that the Yankee banks imposed upon them, and they tried to stop the financial bleeding from higher freight rates to ship goods North, eliminating them from the competition. Had it not been the slavery issue, the Yankees would have found something else to punish the growing South. What they did do is delay our economic punch for 100 years, but look at the tables now! I wouldn't trade our future for all of New England's', as the folks up there are mired in high taxes, stupid policies (i.e.; Demorat policies) low wages, crappy schools, and nowhere and no one to blame except their own stupidity. Study your history before making your outrageous insults, you might learn something actually worth knowing. You must have attended Harvard or something just as rotten.

The reason the South is growing now is because the Union won the war. Under the old stagnant slave system, the South was losing ground.

With the large size of the Confederate states, they should have held on much longer. Jefferson Davis himself said towards the end that all the South lacked was will. But the South never was really united behind the CSA. Many were reluctant conscripts. many Southerners joined the Union army and many more would have if given the chance. Still more wished to be left alone. As NC's Confederate governor admitted, it was a revolution of the politicians and not the people.

My family fought for the South in the famous Yankee War of Aggression.

Ooooh, boy. Here it comes.

Most Rebels went to war to end the Yankee trade imbalances that the Yankee banks imposed upon them, and they tried to stop the financial bleeding from higher freight rates to ship goods

So the song really goes, "Oh I wish I were in the land of equitable trade practices and low tariff rates...Old times there are not forgotten...Look away,look away, look away NAFTAland"?

Study your history before making your outrageous insults, you might learn something actually worth knowing.

I have, which is one of the reasons why I find posts like your's so amusing.

Most Rebels went to war to end the Yankee trade imbalances that the Yankee banks imposed upon them, and they tried to stop the financial bleeding from higher freight rates to ship goods North, eliminating them from the competition

Then surely you can present a couple of quotes from southerners saying that that's why they're seceding. Maybe you could look in the declarations of causes that four of the states issued. Oops, they pretty much only talk about protecting slavery.