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@ClownDicks
 
You sound like one of those people who would claim that a rape victim would not have been raped if she didn’t “dress like a slut”.
 
The question of whether or not a rape victim “dressed like a slut” or if by doing so has provoked the attack does not take away from the fact that the rapist has committed a horrific act.
 
Likewise, you could rant and hiss all you want about Southern society being built on slavery, but that does not change the fact that the North has committed an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign entity.
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@AaronMk
 
The Southern plantation system was already in decline at this point. The wealthy planters that dominated Southern politics simply wanted to latch onto their traditional sources of income as long as they could.
 
As the Ottoman Empire and Brazil have shown, an independent Confederacy would have had to abolish slavery eventually. Instead, the United States comes down in history as the only major nation to abolish slavery through bloodshed.
 
@ClownDicks
 
“The Confederate states seceded because they were paranoid Lincoln was gonna ban slavery. Read their articles of secession some time.”
 
You obviously didn’t read the comment. It explicitly acknowledges that slavery was a driving factor behind Southern secession, but not Northern retaliation.
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The Confederate states seceded because they were paranoid Lincoln was gonna ban slavery. Read their articles of secession some time.
 
Meanwhile, the Union “retaliated” because the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter.
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@Background Pony
 
Of course this whole drama could have been averted if the south simply decided to suck it up and begin the process of converting to more industrial means as opposed to sticking to the plantation system. The same process which was being carried out by the slave-holding Union states, or was already late enough in that process that they weren’t nearly as mad.
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@ClownDicks
 
Northern industrialists were in favor of passing protective tariffs to compete against cheaper and better-quality European imports. Southerners, however, relied upon trade with British manufacturers and were resentful towards the Northern robber barons’ stranglehold over national politics.
 
South Carolina first tried to secede after the Tariff of Abominations was passed in 1828. The secession crisis was the focal point of Andrew Jackson’s Nullification Crisis.
 
The 1861 secession attempt was mainly in response to Morrill Tariff that the newly elected Republicans were about to enact. Of course, slavery was one of the reasons why the South seceded, but not why the North retaliated. The chief reasons for “preserving the Union” was to protect the source of raw produce for Northern industry and to not appear weak and divided on the global stage.
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@ClownDicks
 
By refusing to invest in machines and being on the loosing end of politics in general?
 
I guess someone in the south didn’t Game of Thrones hard enough to tip the proportion of slave states to non-slave states nearly hard enough.
 
 
In the end, it’s a by gone chapter and every time I look at a Civil War argument I can’t help but feel either side is oversimplifying the issue by latching onto a broad set of terms that correspond to personal ideology than anything.
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Eh, I’m not really offended by the flag personally. Even if it’s a bit outdated, I see it as just a sign of “southern pride,” and people can have that if they wish. It’s not really hurting anybody, and doesn’t mean they’re for “slavery,” and crap.  
I think people offended by it, are being a bit to politically-correct.
 
Also, I find it funny when people try to make all southern Americans out to be like “hicks & rednecks,” while forgetting there’s just as many rednecks, and hicks up in northern states. I’ve even seen lower-class British & Australian folk who could fit the “hick” stereotype to.