I can't. Well, not without visiting some unsavory sites I don't care to open on my browser .
I pulled that part out of my ass.
I knew you did. Because I also have been told the same stuff my entire life and assume there must be some basis to it. Then I read a few books on the subject and tried to find data backing these other opinions.
There are multitude of sons of the Confederacy type groups that distort the history.
Then they talk about is "since the majority f Confederate the population was in the states that left after the Battle of fort Sumter isn't it true to state that the primary cause of the civil war was states rights?"
This is where all of this stuff comes from.
South Carolina left due to slaves. So did several other states.
When it was attempted to enforce anti-slavery policies, other slave states joined for the right to maintain slaves. Those other states made up approximately 51% of the Confederate population. But the population of a state is ridiculous As a metric for support of a particular policy.
And it also ignores that many of these states had anti-democratic policies where you had to be landed gentry just to vote.
Confederate States, and in fact most of the United States originally, was highly anti-democratic without representation for most average people. Making reference to a state's population instead of the articles of secession is the kind of revisionist history that you and I have been victim to our entire lives.
The civil war was plainly about slavery. Every cultural clash was about slavery. The state's rights were about slavery. Government overreach was only due to arguments on whether the federal government has the right to enforce anti-slavery policies.
Even North Carolina, perhaps the most ambivalent to Confederate State with a strong abolitionist movement still went along and said you should have the right to own slaves in another state if you want to and we are seceding over that. And that's a state that would probably have eventually outlawed slavery on its own. They had already made a number of policies trying to only allow slaves from inside the United States instead of overseas. For instance. They had a large Quaker movement that was against slavery. The government attempted an early succession stating it was for slavery directly and was overturned by the abolitionist to hoped for a more peaceful wait and see mode. And that's about as good as the not about slavery arguments go. All other states were significantly more direct that they were going to war for their own slavery reasons.
