The civil war discourse has been poisoned beyond belief.
The North acts as if it was a moral war of pure intentions to deliver blacks from bondage. This is false! 
The South acts as if they were peacefully minding their own business fighting for freedom and slavery had nothing to do with it. Also false!
In reality both were power hungry factions in a power struggle for resources, material and human.
Nonsensical tribalism makes people so dishonest I swear.
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Here's my take:
The North wanted their cut of the Souths $, and when they refused they got their shit fucked up.
The South wanted to keep their profits for themselves and be left alone as winners do.
But the profits the north wanted to take from the south was was only possible due to free labor\slavery.
So YES it was ultimately about resources.
But for the south to act like slavery had nothing to do with it is disingenuous as it was the economic engine for their prosperity.
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@basedbagel - Personally, I've concluded that it was fought to answer the question of self-determination. That answer was "no".
