Thread: What Do You Think Of The Confederate Flag?
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Old 03-19-2007, 04:21 PM   #8
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>The war was about the states' rights to choose whether or not they abolished slavery.

This is just completely wrong. The war was about protecting the interests of less populous, agrarian states vs. the interests of the states that contained the industrial/commercial centers of the country.
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