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    4 days ago

    As someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.

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      As someone from the south; we were not. I was lucky enough to have a cousin with an anti-authority complex and internet access, but most of my classmates were not.

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          I mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.