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What they wouldn’t allow them to have is enough representation to vote off the taxes that had been put on their income streams,

The weren’t taxed on their exports (not allowed under Constitution) but they were having to pay taxes on their imports. Ships hauling cotton to England came back filled with superior English-manufactured products. Northern factories couldn’t compete with English so they pressured their Congressmen to pass higher tariffs. Southerners resented paying taxes that they got little in return from. Nice, slow-moving rivers provided their highways, but their taxes were providing for roads in the north and west and subsidizing railroads as well.

The South felt picked on and unloved by the rest of the nation. The fact that more and more Northerners sneered at their “peculiar institution” didn’t help. They saw the election of Lincoln as the last straw. It’s taken well over a century (and the invention of air conditioning) for the South to recover.

The weren’t taxed on their exports (not allowed under Constitution) but they were having to pay taxes on their imports.

Can you tell me the distinction between taxing the front end of a horse and taxing the back end of a horse? All imports to them were in payment for their exports. Effectively, Imports = Exports.

Exactly correct. The Northern centers of cultural eliteness still look down on them as ignorant hillbilly rednecks. They are "Deplorables."

I've heard it said that the American Civil War was merely a continuation of the previous English Civil War, with the North and South regions being settled by the respective combatants in the English Civil War.

So now it's abortion dividing the same groups of people as the Civil War. Also "Gay Marriage", Feminism, Godlessness, "Diversity", Immigration, and a whole host of other issues.

Pretty much the same regions are still against each other.