Reply #8: I live in SC myself

[SouthernLiberal]

But I wasn't born here.

Every once in a while, the local paper will print the document South Carolina published in 1860 to explain why they were leaving the Union. They make it quite clear that the problem was that non-slave-holding states ("The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa" not a non-northern state among them) were passing anti-slavery laws so stringent, that they would not consider any person inside their borders a slave, even if they were only there temporarily.

So, consider the facts -

South Carolina started the 'war of northern aggression' by seceding from the United States
South Carolina said that this was because of the anti-slavery legislation of northern states
South Carolina further said that even if these states did not want slavery within their borders, the Federal Government had an obligation to force them to accept slavery.


What 'everyone' in South Carolina knows -

The war had nothing to do with slavery. It was all about the Federal Government denying 'States' Rights'. And apparently, shooting back after a South Carolinian shoots at you, is what they mean by aggression.