[BroJoeK]

Pelham: "They seceded to preserve slavery in their own state.
They fought a war because Lincoln assembled a 75,000 man army to force them to remain part of the Union.
A look at where the battlefields are should give you an indication of who invaded whom."

You mean this map?

I see battles in Union Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma & New Mexico, among others.

If you count up the battles here, you'll see that during the war's first 12 months, more were fought in Union states & territories than Confederate and more Confederate soldiers died in the Union than in the Confederacy.

It's simply a lie to claim that Confederates posed no "existential threat" to the United States.

[central_va]

It's simply a lie to claim that Confederates posed no "existential threat" to the United States.

Can/could 5 million whites, over half women and children ever pose and extensional threat to 30+ million northerners? Show me one Southern CONTEMPORARY writing, legislation, letter, editorial stating the the South wanted to conquer the North? You sir are a ridiculous a$$. You have a cartoon mind.