Can someone tell the "real causes" of the Civil War these Confederate apologists keep talking about? [View All]

[LostInAnomie]

Ever since McDonnell declared "Confederate History Month" I have heard a Confederate apologists crying that slavery wasn't the cause of the Civil War or even at the root of the causes. From my reading of history, slavery, if not being the only reason, was at least at the very heart of the reasons the South gave for starting the Civil War. How can this not just be accepted fact?

Edit: Earlier today, I watched Tamryn Hall interviewing a member of the Sons of the Confederacy, and she was actually afraid to call out his bullshit assertion that slavery played no role in the Civil War. It's a pretty sad day when a member of the media (a black woman at that) is so uninformed about history that they would let shit like that slide.