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As a southerner living in the south for sixty years, I have studied history and came to conclusions about the Civil War. War is hell and usually caused by greed. The demoncrap leadership of the South was responsible for ALL the carnage of the worst war in our history. They are still at it today. The U.S was blessed to have Lincoln as our President at the time.

I suppose I ought to be told to go find a thread more to my sympathies. . . but I agree with you.

Certainly there was plenty of evil done on all sides. But the pride, arrogance, brutality, hypocrisy etc. on the part of the South was in spite of whatever gentility was there as well.

And the North's brutality, ruthlessness, pride, arrogance etc. was in spite of the good-heartedness toward all men that resided so much there.

We are all flawed critters who, but for the Grace of God, are capable of most any evil imagineable.

THEREFORE, methinks the nose tweaking, trying to wrench blood from the turnip that these threads hostile to Lincoln--well--that they must originate in SOME sort of DEEEEEP SEATED hostility at authority of some sort from some pretty intense childhood experiences. It's difficult for me to explain it to myself any other way. Perhaps there are reasons I haven't come up with yet.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DISAGREE WITH YOU.

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BAD NEWS; THIS IS GONNA BE HARD TO SPIN.

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FROM: http://www.historychannel.com/

POLL RESULTS

What was the primary cause of the Civil War?

Slavery 28% 938 votes
State's rights 56% 1916 votes
Trade and tariff policy 9% 318 votes
Western expansion 3% 93 votes
Other 4% 130 votes

Total: Total Votes: 3,395