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In reply to the discussion: The Civil War was not about slavery [View all]marylandblue
(12,344 posts)69. I am not big on Prager University
But that was a good one.
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Willful ignorance on the part of the alt-right, or just the right in general.
bullwinkle428
Aug 2017
#3
Also the declarations of seccession of many of those states state clearly that they are...
brush
Aug 2017
#41
That bullshit --and it is bullshit-- comes from those attempting to WHITE-wash history...
Raster
Aug 2017
#5
Yeah, the Confederate leadership were hypocritical assholes of the highest order.
cemaphonic
Aug 2017
#76
All the resolutions of secession mention the necessity of slavery to the southern way of life.
muntrv
Aug 2017
#19
I've run into that BS for years. I usually tell them to read the first two paragraph's of
Hoyt
Aug 2017
#25
It was about preserving the Union. The Union would not need preserving if the states
patricia92243
Aug 2017
#27
This is what I was taught in 1948-49 in the 8th grade. In Texas, of course.
Thirties Child
Aug 2017
#31
One of my husband's nephews--who lives in Georgia--posted this on his fb page not long ago
mnhtnbb
Aug 2017
#33
Much of the financing for southern purchase of slaves came from the northern financiers
flyingfysh
Aug 2017
#39
Just today, someone told me it was because the North blocked Southern cotton exports to England
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2017
#49
The causes are many. It is a mistake to try to boil everything down to 1 cause.
TexasProgresive
Aug 2017
#50
I was in junior high school when the Civil War Centennial rolled around.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Aug 2017
#52
That's what the previous President of NRA called the war -- Big Jim Porter, a white wing
Hoyt
Aug 2017
#84
I thought for a long time it was about slavery, but as I got older I realized that it was
LiberalArkie
Aug 2017
#59
I understand why people want to forget it, it was horrible, I would ban any memorial to war
Not Ruth
Aug 2017
#67
They didn't give a shit about "state's rights" when it came to the Fugitive Slave Law...
First Speaker
Aug 2017
#71
The Fugitive Slave Laws is one of the strongest arguments against the "states rights" theory
cemaphonic
Aug 2017
#80
Oddly enough, each state's Articles of Secession mentioned slavery as a relevant motivation
LanternWaste
Aug 2017
#82
The "economic" talking point is both trivially obvious and insidiously misleading
Azathoth
Aug 2017
#79
if the state says it folks believe it...russians still don't think we landed on the moon
dembotoz
Aug 2017
#85