you are. you're insisting that the north placed tariffs on goods leaving the country. that's not true. the tariffs in 1861 were lower than they had been 20 years earlier. southern congressmen had just managed to lower them.The north put tariffs on the souths goods leaving the country. And Lincoln wrote articles explicitly saying he wanted to end it without freeing a single slave. But slavery was a side note in the civil war and was already being fazed out prior to the war after the invention of the cotton press. I'm not rewriting anythingnope. the civil war was about slavery. see the secession declaration of south carolina if you doubt it.The Confederate flag is no more racist than the American flag is. It was the souths battle flag in the civil war, but somehow most people don't know that the civil war was not about race or slavery. It was about states rights because the industrial driven north put such high tariffs on the agricultural driven souths goods. Less than 2% of white southerners owned slaves. And the vast majority of white americans in that time were share croppers who were no better off than slaves. Racists have used the flag and given it a bad reputaion, but what are we going to do when someone draped in the American flag does something crazy? Ban the American flag?
further, there were no tariffs placed on the souths goods entering the north. you are a confused individual who is trying to rewrite history.
and once fucking again - south carolina's secession declaration cites protection of slavery as a cause.
you're rewriting history so your ancestors don't look like the traitorous racist fucks they probably were.