"the South completely controlled the federal government until 1860" - arrogantslob
Totally absurd and you can't provide credible references to back any of your absurdity up.
With you it's just blah, blah, blah, lie, lie, lie, blah, blah, blah, lie, lie, lie........
IT WAS NOT. But it clearly and confessedly was so for the South.
That is the Big Lie pepetuated by you left wingers. And unlike you, I can provide references to credible historians that will shatter your yankee lies and politically correct yankee mythology and bilge. For instance:
Why The War Was Not About Slavery
If you can’t wage an honest argument then don’t bother.
I suggest that you try some honesty for a change. It may liberate your from you statist, liberal, politically correct bonds.
I have listed the pro slavery presidents - no response but sputtering. I will and John Marshall to Taney between the two that is almost the entire eighteenth century up to the War. Both slave owners and Southerners. Then I listed the top figures in the Congress Clay and Calhoun - no response from you but sputtering. Southern power in Congress was cemented by the 3/5s rule allowing Slavers to vote as though their chattel was 3/5s of a man. You just pretend this increased power did not exist. So that is Executive, Judicial and Legislative all under control of the South and Slavers. What is your problem with this obvious and indisputable fact.
Livingston is the best you can do? He isn’t even a historian much less a credible one and I wouldn’t trust his philosophical analysis any more than his political. Nor does the school he teaches at have any reputation of excellence in any field.
Nothing he says can change the fact that the Slavers readily admitted that they fought for slavery. It is only their modern apologists who claim they fought for some Noble Cause rather than the ability to use the Whip and the Lash. They weren’t such hypocrites.