[laotzu]

"..it's been necessary to downplay the issue of slavery"

We used to have slaves?!! Oh...that's right. You just never hear about the slavery that once existed here.

"Historians have been debating for decades whether the South and North came to blows more because of slavery or state's rights"

The South could have peacefully seceeded, without resistance from ther North; if only they had freed their slaves.

Yea...sure.

It was about individual & states rights vs federal government rule. The North prevailed, and we have been sliding into socialism ever since.

Why does the North call it a "Civil War" when the South had no interest in ruling them?

After forcibly dragging the South back into the fold, why does the North refer to this country as "United"?

Such total deceptions of history serve a purpose. What purpose is served? Why do liberal socialists almost never admit to being such. Hmmmm....

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Why does the North call it a "Civil War" when the South had no interest in ruling them?

It is officially called "The War of the Rebellion".

[FloridaBoy]

great post...thank you. states rights.I feel that if the Southern States would have known that getting out of "The Union" was not near as easy as gett'in in then they never would have joined in the first place.