the secessionist movement spent weeks prior to fort sumter raiding federal armories and provoking the government. the southern states were not overtaxed because income tax did not exist and the majority of tax revenue came out of new york city's ports. you didn't want to phase out slavery on your own terms, you wanted maintain it despite industry advancement and you wanted it expanded into the newer western states. your government was not one of states rights but rather an even more overbearing federal presence than lincoln's governments, passing bills and executive orders that would trample the rights of the citizen if they didn't not stand in line with the views of the confederate congress. much like the communists, your revolution was not led by the working man or the simple farmer. it was led by the rich 1% of the planter class, which exploited both poor whites and enslaved blacks alike. your generals were shit. they were unable to adapt to modern tactics. lee marched tens of thousands of his men into slaughters while grant innovated. your best generals were ignored and placed where they could do the least to affect the war effort. your post war efforts to hinder reconstruction and negro integration put them on the path to becoming what we see now. the lost cause is a cope and you need to move on.
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