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House Republicans urge Pentagon to block removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
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If they wanted to just leave they probably shouldn't have bombarded Fort Sumter - would've still been a war but the narrative may have played to their dumb Lost Cause bullshit better.
Also they turned traitor because new states joining wouldn't be slave states, and thus they would become a minority and slavery would disappear.
If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle.
The Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter because they knew they could take it and they wanted it. The narrative was always going to be tied to slavery, and even if they had won the war and become independent nations, they would still be racist shitbags.
The joining of new states was also part of it, and one could argue that the writing was on the wall for the abolitionist movement. But the fact remains that the Confederate states opposed states' rights on the subject of slavery, and wanted to enforce slavery in all states. When Lincoln won, it became clear that wouldn't happen despite the fact that they already were in control of the legislature. So they tried to leave, and take half of America with them.
So your point is that they didn't want to "overthrow", but instead they wanted to fracture and capture?