Just read some history. The South was being disproportionately taxed for the benefit of the industrial North. You don't really think the Southerners decided to leave on a whim, do you?
ML/NJ
Total neo confederate myth. And if taxes were the cause, why didn't they say so in their declaration of causes.
You don't really think the Southerners decided to leave on a whim, do you?
No, they left because Lincoln promised to block expansion of slavery in the territories, and the slave owning aristocrats knew they needed continual expansion to keep their slavery Ponzi scheme afloat.
You, my firend are the the one who should read some history.
“Just read some history. The South was being disproportionately taxed for the benefit of the industrial North. You don’t really think the Southerners decided to leave on a whim, do you?”
Well no. The taxes and tariffs that the South groused so much about were applied uniformly across all of the states. There is no act that said “Georgia shall pay this tax...). Yes, the impact of these laws was not uniformly felt. The South as a region took a heavier hit. But those same laws hurt the farmers in PA and NY as they did SC and GA. A countrywide civil war between agrarians and industrialists may have been justifiable. But that little bothersome difference between northern agrarians(who paid their laborers) and southern agrarians(who didn’t) over slavery didn’t make that possible.
You might note the fact that in 1860, the tariffs on cotton were actually reduced (though still high). So are you advocating the position that reducing taxes (as was done) induces rebellion?