[WhiskeyPapa]

The South was tired of a bunch of Yankee extremists trying to tell them how to run their own livelihoods and economy.

Simple nonsense.

Southerners controlled the executive and the judiciary branches of the government for decades prior to 1860. They had the power to deadlock the legislative branch.

When they saw that power fading, presaged by the election of a sectional candidate (Lincoln by name), they bolted.

Walt

[Colt .45]

Its really simple Walt ... you Yankees won the war, so you can tell the story any way you want ... even if it means lying.