User blog comment:High Prince Imrahil/The Confederate Flag/@comment-27097330-20160712153356

Without responding to every comment on this page, all I can say is my personal opinion. I believe the war was mainly about keeping the USA together, however the tensions involved high slavery led up to the war and had a big part in instigating it. Also, Imrahil several states outright say one of their reasons for leaving was slavery. Either this was one of their reasons and they were obviously against getting rid of slaves,(the more likely option), or it was propaganda to encourage the people of the south to fight,(the Union's trying to take away all your slaves, we can't survivive like that!), either way it kind of gets rid of the image of the south as innocent freedom fighters.

Do I believe the north was inherently good or the south was inherently bad, no. I believe the broth had less of a reliance on slaves than the south and therefore were in a less racist culture, but that doesn't mean the North was full of saints.