Texas, the new Florida

jahsoul357 said
Regarding the Civil War, it was about the Union and everything else was secondary. As the direct descendant of slaves in America, I'm not naïve to the fact that "ending slavery" was a means, with the Emancipation Proclamation being used as a political tool, that it was more beneficial for Lincoln to keep the Union unified (*cough*import/export*cough*), and slavery was not the driver for war. Again, it was a driver for secession. Those are facts; not the "Lincoln fought the war to free the slaves" stuff we got in school.

Saying what you do above is nonsensical.

Saving the Union was the goal because slave states intended to secede. The demands of slave ownership drove the secession plans and caused the need to "save the union"

Slavery drove secession. Secession necessitated saving the union.

And I didn't say Lincoln fought the war to free the slaves. Our nation fought a war to save the union from the pressures of secession of southern states who were hell bent on preserving slavery.