[editor-surveyor]

"Why did the South secede, then?"

Taxes !!

The southern states were paying 90% of the taxes, and had 10% of the population, thus no hope of correcting the problem.

[r9etb]

The southern states were paying 90% of the taxes, and had 10% of the population, thus no hope of correcting the problem.

Quite an assertion. Now prove it.