re: Was slavery an important factor in the Civil War?

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And in typical Yankee fantasy fashion ...revisionist history once again rears it's ugly head. There is better question, you would fail to be able to answer.

What exactly what the north fighting for?

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I'm no Yankee pal, I'm from Southern Louisiana where we consider everyone north of the sothern boundaries of Shreveport a Yankee but the facts are the facts.

Many Southern Democrats decided on succession the moment Lincoln won the 1860 election and some had done so before he was even inaugurated.

And the simple, irrefutable fact is that the Confederacy attacked the United States of America. Lincoln did not start the war neither did he cause the Confederacy.

The Southern Democrats who did both are to blame, pure and fricking simple.

ETA:I never realized that Lincoln was inaugurated in March, the Confederacy was formed and had a fully installed government in FEBURARY and they attacked Fort Sumter in APRIL.

So they formed the Confederacy BEFORE Lincoln was President and attacked US Troops less than a month into his Presidency and some of you yokels want to blame Lincoln for the Civil War...?