“...Slavery was an unworthy cause for the South, but states’ rights are a real issue to this day, and once again the Democrats are on the wrong side of it. ...”
I had a Civil War history professor phrase it regarding states rights & slavery - “Right principle, wrong application !”
and you are all FOS; the war for southern independence was fought over the same damned thing as the war for American independence——— taxation without representation—— the north was using the south for their obedient cash cow.