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.
And everyone in the South was doing the bidding of these "slave owning aristocrats"? Please! Most Southerners did not own slaves and my guess is that they didn't care much about the "slave owning aristocrats." I'm not sure what was a Ponzi scheme about slavery. To be sure, ordinary Southerners would have cared about admitting only "free" States because it would have caused their interests to slide further in Washington. I'm not sure how Lincoln was going to block expansion of slavery into the territories. Wasn't that one of the things that the Dred Scott decision said the Federal government did not have the power to do? The non-slave-owning Southerners might have been worried about all those emancipated slaves in their midst but one of the things "Honest Abe" promised was that the existing Slave States could keep their slavery and that he would support enforcement of the fugitive slave laws. So there was not supposed to be any forced emancipation under Lincoln and such fears would have been unfounded.
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