re: The trope Confederates were traitors is bullshite

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the Confederates attack the U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter.

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Once they seceded, Fort Sumter was no longer a US fort. The Confederacy did not claim ownership of any of the Northern forts that their tax dollars had helped to build before secession.

Lincoln, needed an excuse for war and forced the issue with his aggression at attempting to resupply a fort that in reality was no longer under his command. Like I said, the Confederacy had a right to defend itself.

The north had managed to turn each dollar earned by the South into a forty cent profit for the North. THIS was the primary reason for the secession. They were sick and tired of being raped financially by the North. The North could not give up it's good deal for itself and decided that the South would not be allowed to escape from their abuse. They forced their will upon the South. The South just wanted to chart their own future without being robbed constantly by the North.

As to slavery, the North, in an effort to keep the South from secession even offered up an amendment to the Constitution that would have enshrined slavery forever. They could care less about slavery. They wanted their forty cents out of every dollar generated by the South to continue, no matter how much the South detested it.