[RetiredArmy]

This was the book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War that I was talking about. The book looks at the war based on what happened, why, results, loss of states rights. The South had a right to succeed from the Union. The Constitution gave them the right. But after the war, states rights as written by the Founders was gone. The federal government took over control of all government and the right to tell states what they could and could not do. Thus, starting the federal government's dominance over our lives.

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, what you’re saying is right — it was a “state’s rights” issue — fundamentally and primarily. Too many people today have “romanticized” the Civil War into something that it never was.

I’ve got mixed feelings about the *real issue* behind the Civil War, because you’re right, they did have a right to remove themselves from the Union. And today we’ve lost a lot of state’s rights issues because of that (and we should try to get them back again, as “sovereign states” of the United States).

The mixed feelings comes about, because I think everyone would want to preserve the Union — but — it came at a price — the price of war and the price of losing state’s rights. And so, the mixed feelings...