Regarding all the debate on the Civil War, War of the Rebellion, War between the States etc. Call me a cynic, but I think, based on general history studies, that economics had a lot to do with the war actually happening -- all the many economic tensions between the north and south -- tariffs, taxes, industrialization and, with western states coming on -- political power. Also states rights, but that became a code-phrase for racist later. But That alone would not have sold the war to the people of the north, gotten passions up. And for a lot of people in the north, the issue was slavery. But I think Southerners, the majority, fought more for independence than for slavery. and in the end to protect their homes. They may have been racist, but poor whites were not helped by slavery. Ann