[central_va]

The concept of “Border States” was created by revisionist historians. These are the ones who claim the war was about slavery. They needed to explain away one major problem with their revision: if it was about slavery, then why was slavery legal in four Union states?

Clearly, the government brainwashing you received in public schools didn't take. Say 30 "Hail Lincoln, God of the Union".

[bobjam]

The brainwashing didn’t take- probably because I did my Latin homework during US History.

The worst example of false history peddled in schools concerns the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Textbooks say Missouri’s application for statehood would throw off the delicate slave/free state balance. To maintain the balance, Maine was detached from Massachusetts and made its own state.

The problem is that in 1820, New York and New Jersey were slave states. There was no “slave/free” balance in 1820. The balance was between north and south, not slave and free. This fact is ignored by historians who equate South with slave and North with free.