re: How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?

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The purpose of the war was to centralize power in a large federal government, which began during the war and has continued since.

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I believe in the right of States to secede if they wish to do so, if they are not seceding under the pretense to deny their citizens of the God given rights.

These days I am not sure why any state would want to do so given the prosperity of the country as a whole, but who knows.

The civil war wasn't fought over some power grab of the federal government. The federal income tax wasn't even established until WW1. All in all the south went to war to in order to retain "free property rights" - which in reality was trampling on the rights protected under the constitution of all American citizens.