Reply #144: The hypothesis is correct, as anyone who has studied History knows.

[TexasObserver]

The Civil War was over slavery. It started with the Constitution and its compromise on counting slaves, and continued unabated for the next 74 years, until the war began.

All my life, I've heard the unreconstructed claim that the civil war was about anything and everything other than slavery. It's a grand rationalization. There's a reason most of the tea baggers hate Obama. They're literally unreconstructed Rebels who never accepted that the Confederacy got its butt kicked, to the glory of the United States and compassion.

Anyone who has any doubts that the Civil War was about slavery should get a degree in American History from a decent university, and lose that incorrect notion.