[kiryandil]

Then why post to me?

To call you on your Carville-like quacking.

Pretending that tariffs had nothing to do with the Civil War is like pretending that impeaching the Pantload "was just about sex".

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Pretending that tariffs had nothing to do with the Civil War is like pretending that impeaching the Pantload "was just about sex".

Again, look up the history of tariffs in the US and you'll see that the south dominated the tariff issue in the Congress from the 1830s until the Civil War. They got everything they wanted in those years.