[proxy_user]

Revisionist BS. Do you really think men will fight and die over tarriff policy? Men will fight to preserve their families, their culture, and their way of life.

If you look at the events leading up to the Civil War--the rioting in Boston, the fighting in Kansas, the demented activities of John Brown--in every case, slavery is the issue. Both the South and the North knew this, even though they tried to wrap themselves in more uplifting propoganda.

[dixierat22]

Gee, the Boston Tea Party and American Revolution of 1776 come to mind. The Whiskey Rebellion under Washingtons administration, also. While slavery was a major issue, it was not the only issue.

[Aurelius]

Thank you for you opinion. Who knows? You might even be right.

[JohnGalt]

Some people fight and die over "regime change", so I am not sure I buy your premise.

[stand watie]

the ONLY MAIN issue was FREEDOM for dixie.

that is the plain unvarnished TRUTH.

the damnyankee apologists want to say that chattel slavery was the issue, as it makes their merciless,hateFILLED,imperialist war against the new dixie republic and the THOUSANDS of atrocities against innocent civilians & helpless CSA POWs look better. the damnedyankee apologists,otoh, KNOW better.

free dixie,sw

[PistolPaknMama]

Do you really think men will fight and die over tarriff policy? Men will fight to preserve their families, their culture, and their way of life.

If the tarriff policy effects their families, their culture and their way of life. What about the American Revolution? What is it you think got the colonists so riled up?

[GOPcapitalist]

Revisionist BS. Do you really think men will fight and die over tarriff policy?

"When goods do not cross borders, armies will" - Frederic Bastiat

History, which is full of wars over commercial exchanges, tends to support his prediction.

[Vision]

the demented activities of John Brown

I was talking about Brown the other night with a friend. Why do you call his activities demented?

[stand watie]

SORRY, but i'm NOT going to let you get away with that!

CERTAIN WORDS & PHRASES have recognized meanings.

REVISIONISM/REVISIONIST is one of those "terms of art."

REVISIONISM is a product of the most extreme LEFTIST/SOCIALIST (some would say COMMUNIST!) school of political thought, which rose out of the poison-ivy league schools of the northeast.

whatever else we southrons are, it is not LEFTIST/SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST! we leave that to the damnyankee elitists!

free dixie,sw

[LibKill]

If you look at the events leading up to the Civil War--the rioting in Boston, the fighting in Kansas, the demented activities of John Brown--in every case, slavery is the issue. Both the South and the North knew this, even though they tried to wrap themselves in more uplifting propoganda.

I would say it was the major issue, but not the only one. Had this issue been resolved peacefully it might have been possible to resolve the others peacefully as well. And it could have been resolved peacefully, the british managed to abolish slavery without fighting each other.

Ah well, if a frog had pockets it would carry a .38. The war happened. It was disastrous for both sides but particularly for the south. The southern states wound up back in the union and very much worse off than before. The only good thing that came out of it was the abolition of slavery, the price for that was apx. 600,000 dead.