[stand watie]

interestingly, you need only read the memoirs of MANY yankee officers to find that the typical rebel POW said that the reason he/she (YES there were MANY female Confederates, a considerable number of whom were wounded and/or died as a direct result of combat!) was fighting was for their "RATS" (one officer said he wondered why on earth that southerners were so interested in the welfare of "rats"! it was then explained to the colonel that they meant "RIGHTS"! the colonel said that that the correction by a subordinate caused him a red face! LOL!)

you are PARTIALLY correct that then ,as now, the well to do politicians DID lord themselves over the "common folk".

nonetheless, the typical CSA veteran KNEW precisely what he/she was fighting for = separation from the thew average southerner regarded as the damnyankee-controlled government, which they regarded as intrusive,coercive, dictatorial,anti-LIBERTY & NOT protective of their GOD-given civil rights.

whether you like this or not, that is the TRUTH.

free the southland,sw

[Agnes Heep]

... nonetheless, the typical CSA veteran KNEW precisely what he/she was fighting for = separation from the thew average southerner regarded as the damnyankee-controlled government, which they regarded as intrusive,coercive, dictatorial,anti-LIBERTY & NOT protective of their GOD-given civil rights.

That's what every faction in a democracy believes when the majority isn't on his side. It's been happening for years, and continues to happen. But in the instant case there was a single, overriding issue that trumped all else and successfully divided the nation geographically. Without that geographical division, there could have been no war. If we could get the abortion issue similarly divided geographically we'd be in the same situation.