[PMCarey]

It was about states' rights more than about slavery.

States rights to do what? The major states rights issue was the issue of slavery - it wasn't parking tickets.

[JamesP81]

States rights to do what? The major states rights issue was the issue of slavery - it wasn't parking tickets.

It had a lot to do with protectionist tariffs the North was using. These tarriffs caused foreign countries to tarriff the *only* American export of the time which was agricultural products from the South.