@oralloy,
But the reason why the South started the Civil War was to try to preserve slavery (which they feared would be abolished if they remained part of the Union).
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That doesn't make the South bad and the North honorable and decent, as the usual propaganda goes. The people of the north were every bit as ugly as those of the south. Both were largely vehement racists, both were involved in an over 200 year long genocide against Native Americans.