The Civil War

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

I really can't believe the people who defend the Confederacy and try to claim the Civil War wasn't about slavery--these are usually conservatives, who still call it the ''war of Northern Agression.'' I go on conservative message boards and it's amazing to see after 140 years these Southerners still calling the war by that name, arguing slavery had little to do with the war and even referring to those from the Northern states as "Yankees" It's like many of these cons are still stuck in 1870. Yeah, let's defend a state's right and freedom to own slaves...Little bit of irony there.

The Conservatives are trying to revise history in order to change the appearance of State's rights proponents.  Its hard to make an argument that State's Rights is important when we see from history that State's Rights was used to justify the institution of slavery.  The only way the Conservatives can whitewash the dangers of absolute State's rights is to turn the Confederates into heroes.  

States' rights was also used to fight slavery and war and other terrible things. New England planned on seceding multiple times, and Wisconsin I believe attempted to nullify the Fugitive Slave Act, which ran roughshod over states' rights.