re: Slavery was not the only issue the South was fighting for

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Not surprising considering 49% of Missisppi Households owned slaves in 1860. Loved their precious slaves.

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That is a misapplication of statistics. At its height, according to the census, there were slightly less than 31k slave owners in Mississippi. The total free population of the State was a little over 351k.

Furthermore, you can whine about slaves all you want, but it was really about money (could have just as easily have been about tractors were it in today's era). Most plantations has more capital in the slaves than they did in anything else, and that capital was being unduly burdened by a Northern government which received the majority of outlays while the South maintained nearly 2/3rd of the nation's wealth.