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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gopher29, post: 231874, member: 5379&quot;]The civil war, as with all wars, was caused by reasons of economics and not racism.&nbsp; Does anyone really think that white people in the north cared enough about black people in the south to go and fight and die for them?&nbsp; Please, my ancestors are from the north and I would love to think that they, along with the rest of the northernors and Abe Lincoln were so unselfish as to sacrifice so much for humanitarian reasons but that would be a farce.&nbsp; The truth is that politicians in the north decided it was worth it to sacrifice 1,000,000 U.S. citizens in order to preserve the Union so as not to give up all that land and tax revenue from the precious Southern cotton industry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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