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This wasn't even remotely what the Civil war was fought over. It was a struggle against the Federal government system from DC imposing themselves over states ri

This wasn't even remotely what the Civil war was fought over. It was a struggle against the Federal government system from DC imposing themselves over states rights in the South. Also, you might get more reception for your ideas if you don't paint half the country as a "festering shithole". The majority of Americans don't live in the ivory towers of NYC and San Francisco.

ocschwar 7y ago
The South's own declarations of secession make pretty clear just what impositions from DC were bothering them. A bunch of English-aristocrat-wannabes afraid they'd have to give up their aspirations on account of the whole owning-people-thing.