>>510394483>One side peacefully left the UnionDid they pay for all the land they stole that the US taxpayer paid for in the Louisiana purchase? All the lives given for Texas in the Mexican American war? What about Northerner lives who died defending the South in the war of 1812? Did they promise to not become economic rivals?
Shut the fuck up retard, the South wanted to split the nation and rob the US of rightful territory. Not to mention threaten sovereignty.
>The fact that the south didn’t have representation until WW2They didn't even have representation in the CSA.
You think plantation owners had the average southerner's interests in mind? If they had, they wouldn't have started the war, lied about what Northerners wanted, and escalated at every turn to begin with and would have taken the small economic hit to import and actually hire whites for decent wages
You act like the North wanted to just ban all farming and harvesting of crops instead of banning cheap nonwhite labor because it sets bad precedent to allow it.
If southern aristocrats had been reasonable AT ALL the war would have been avoided