Let me form this into a question....since that’s what you seem to want for your feedback. “Why do you insist on calling the Civil War the, quote...War of Northern Aggression..unquote?

It seems to me the first shots were fired by Southern folk...a well known fact. Your attitude in after aldl these years still defending a lost, and thank God it is lost, cause is indicative of the mentaldity of the South in dragging the country into the bloodiest war of it’s history for the benifit odf a group of wealth, slaveowning traitors.

The country, in general, has gone along with a sort of wispy view of the South’s motives, allowing texts for children to call it such things as “The War Between The States,” and other eupherisms to placate the naturally bruised feelings of loosers who are still in our midst.....I have lived in the South since my sixth birthday, and am presently 58 years old, and I love it here and wouldn’t want to live anywere else....but there is an element in the South that I am ashamed of, such as the Klan and beer drinking Red Neck so-called reenactors....that is repelent.

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richarddnn - 06 June 2010 02:50 AM

Let me form this into a question....since that’s what you seem to want for your feedback. “Why do you insist on calling the Civil War the, quote...War of Northern Aggression..unquote?

It seems to me the first shots were fired by Southern folk...a well known fact. Your attitude in after aldl these years still defending a lost, and thank God it is lost, cause is indicative of the mentaldity of the South in dragging the country into the bloodiest war of it’s history for the benifit odf a group of wealth, slaveowning traitors.

The country, in general, has gone along with a sort of wispy view of the South’s motives, allowing texts for children to call it such things as “The War Between The States,” and other eupherisms to placate the naturally bruised feelings of loosers who are still in our midst.....I have lived in the South since my sixth birthday, and am presently 58 years old, and I love it here and wouldn’t want to live anywere else....but there is an element in the South that I am ashamed of, such as the Klan and beer drinking Red Neck so-called reenactors....that is repelent.

Purling
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Because it was Northern Agression.

Someone on this forum has an excellent post on this.
It may be in Local New or Local Politics...it should have been here.

http://www.etymonline.com/cw/economics.htm

SLAVERY or TARIFF?

“It is curious how indifferent historians have been to the South’s complaint about the tariff, often dismissing it as a scapegoat for the section’s own economic shortcomings or as a disguised form of slavery conflict,” writes historian Clyde N. Wilson (in his section of “Slavery, Secession, and Southern History"). “But the plain truth is that [John C.] Calhoun was entirely correct in his opposition to the tariff. Debates about the actual macro- and micro-economic effects of antebellum protection are beside the point. The South, providing the bulk of the Union’s exports, sold in an unprotected world market, while all American consumers bought in a highly protected one. And this was to the benefit of one class, no matter how plausibly disguised as a public boon.

“Such exactions are hard to justify at any time, but especially so in a federal Union in which economic interests are regionalized in such a way that the exploitive effect is concentrated. Americans had fought a revolution for smaller grievances. Not to mention, as Calhoun pointed out in the South Carolina Exposition, to the agreement of free traders, that the tariff’s ‘tendency is, to make the poor poorer and the rich richer.’

See link for the rest of the article.

There are also other article on the site.