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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haley was schooled in the south. You know how they teach the civil war, right?

It really is a sad statement on our country in 2023 that we still have a huge part of the citizenry denying that slavery was a major reason for the war.

I also find it laughable that DeSantis is calling her out, when his state has walked back the talk of slavery in history books.

This upcoming election really just might be my last straw with this idiocracy.[/quote]

We do not have a "huge" part of our citizenry denying that slavery was the primary cause of The Civil War. That's similar to saying there is a huge portion of our citizenry that don't believe there was a Holocaust in WW2. You are watching too much cable news and/or assuming that a few loud mouth radical politicians are representing the beliefs of a majority of their electorate if you truly believe a significant percentage of the US population does not acknowledge slavery as the primary cause of The Civil War. There are bigoted idiots walking around among us but they aren't anywhere close to making up a huge portion of our population. [/quote]

I would love to believe you, but I need to see some stats[/quote]

The claim that The Civil War was a dispute over state's rights isn't factually incorrect. The states that eventually seceded did so based on their belief that individual states should be able to determine the legality of slavery within their state. This doesn't change the fact that slavery was the primary cause of the war between the states. The Union's victory allowed for the Federal legislation prohibiting slavery to become enforceable in all states by effectively overriding any individual states claim of slavery being a state's rights issue. The correct answer in stating the cause of The Civil War is a dispute between the Federal Government and individual states over whether or not each state should determine the legality of slavery within their state. A large majority of the people that claim the war was a state's rights dispute would acknowledge slavery as being the primary cause of certain states choosing to secede over that dispute. [/quote]

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