Curried Goats
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In some Southern states nearly 40% of households owned at least one slave.But you see the issue though, right? As you mentioned, that plantation class was the elite of the South. The average southerner was far too poor to own slaves.
By the same token, the average northerner didn't have any vested interest in having the South as part of the Union.
So, ultimately, the problem with the Civil War was the same as most wars -- the elites just wanted to pit their poor against each other for their own benefit.
The only saving grace to the war was the end of slavery. Had that not occurred, it would have been a war fought without any real positive change.