tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556908470111862027.post2583727635940630356..comments2023-08-27T09:42:00.889-04:00Comments on Inklings: Another good article, and more Civil War EconomicsTheresehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15714371500752756536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556908470111862027.post-13163847714244746402012-01-05T14:45:12.234-05:002012-01-05T14:45:12.234-05:00I'm always happy to meet a southerner willing ...I'm always happy to meet a southerner willing to admit this! I'm sure there are many more, but I went to a school where a truly astonishing percentage of the population was fine with supporting secession; I think some of the problem is lack of familiarity with the original documents, as you suggest. (Not that Northern schools generally do a better job of promoting a well-balanced understanding of the war either; the problems there are different though. Suggesting that all northerners were abolitionists or something ridiculous like that.)Theresehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714371500752756536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556908470111862027.post-37281902819823194552012-01-02T23:26:16.459-05:002012-01-02T23:26:16.459-05:00I happen to reside in Columbia, SC - where secessi...I happen to reside in Columbia, SC - where secession formally began - and it is remarkable how many people still want to distance the causes of the war from economy and slavery, when these resaons were quite literally the heart of SC's articles of seccession: http://eweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/decl-sc.htmMark Mahaffeyhttp://mapologist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com