Not "debunked", more like drowned in the stream of irrelevant crap you deliberately put forth in order to abfuscate the salient point; That Money, specifically the loss of huge sums of it to the power structure of the New York/Washington Axis, was the reason why the Union invaded the South to stop their independence from that power structure.
Same trouble we face today. New York/Washington controls the nation, and the rest of us pay tribute.
Fantasize and mythologize all you wish, but, first, that's not what they said at the time, and second, it's no more true of the Civil War than of any other war.
And if you then say, "all wars are only about economics" that makes you a Marxist, and a liar, because very few wars, and certainly not the Civil War, were fought for purely economic reasons.
Other reasons predominated even if economics was also involved.
But in the case of the Civil War, Northern economics was not only secondary to other reasons, it was never mentioned as a reason for war.
Southern economics, specifically slavery, on the other hand, played a very prominent and fully acknowledged role at the time.
DiogenesLamp: "Same trouble we face today. New York/Washington controls the nation, and the rest of us pay tribute."
Oh, sure, they do, just like they controlled the last election and forced us all to elect Hillary president.
I have to admit, you got me on that one.
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