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And yet, if you go back and read what people were actually writing about at the time--newspaper editorials, political speeches, letters of soldiers...those are all about slavery. Slavery was the states right issue that the states right issue was about.
This. ^
The only time I hear people pulling the whole "State's rights" argument is when I know they are a racist or have a serious lack of understanding on what the Civil War was fought over.
Was it fought over State's Rights? Yes. It was fought over the state's rights to allow slavery. Calling it state's rights and not suggesting it was about slavery is as bad as denying the Holocaust ever happened. Seriously, get a grip, Civil War history is well recorded.
No never. To any neo-Confederate on here that voted yes, I suggest you look up Appomatox. This question has been answered already, in blood, back in the 1860s.
Assuming that these U.S. states conducted genuinely free and fair referendums which showed that a majority of their voters would like to secede.
As for me, I voted Yes, since I support the concept of self-determination.
Yes I do support it! Let the trashy "Conservative" South "Secede" already! Let those who really pay taxes pay for things!
You won't have to worry about "Abortions" or "Gays" anymore!
We like our 'Subways" and our "public transit" and our "schools"!
No never. To any neo-Confederate on here that voted yes, I suggest you look up Appomatox. This question has been answered already, in blood, back in the 1860s.
Sorry, but "I'll shoot you" is not a legal argument.
How about counties? can they secede as well?
IMO if your country has problems you fix the problems you dont disolve the country..
However with todays Situation of Americans hating Americans instead of working together to fix the countries maladies its obvious Americas best days are gone.Rather unfortunate as America was once a damn good place to be.
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