The Civil War was a gigantic blunder by the southern elite. They should have just won the next election. Which they very well could have.

They were only a decade or so from technology displacing the economic need for slavery anyways.

Also. To those downvoting this pede: It's true that many Southerners - the vast majority of which did not own slaves - were fighting for state's rights. But the Southern elite were definitely fighting for economic reasons.

Regardless, that conflict is past. It helped make America what it became.

The Civil War was a gigantic blunder by the southern elite. They should have just won the next election. Which they very well could have.

They were only a decade or so from technology displacing the economic need for slavery anyways.

Also. Do those downvoting these pede: It's true that many Southerners - the vast majority of which did not own slaves - were fighting for state's rights. But the Southern elite were definitely fighting for economic reasons.

Regardless, that conflict is past. It helped make America what it became.