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Originally posted by scottmandue
Okay you history buffs help me out here.
This may be totally bogus but...
Someone told me that the civil war was not fought over slavery.
Anyone care to field that one?
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That's correct. When the four man presidential race was won by a man funded by and representing the Northern corporate and merchantilist interests; the southern states who had been carrying a hugely disproportionate share of the taxes that supported the federal government at the time only to see the money flowing northward year after year to build infrastructure in those states; some of the states had had enough and voted to secede fairly quickly.
The war was initiated by Lincoln and waged to determine who would control the country, and to stop the wealthy southern states from taking their wealth and abundant natural resources with them and forming a competing free trade, almost libertarian nation right next to one that favored corporate welfare, merchantilism, and protective tariffs.