User blog comment:ChazmanianDevil/A Response and Alternate Viewpoint on the Nature and Morality of the Confederacy/@comment-27097330-20170521181340/@comment-26295802-20170521183747

If I ever make another blog post (I probably won't, as it was a freaking TON of work to do all that research), it will probably be about the cultural differences between North and South that in my opinion caused the war altogether, and in Chaz's opinion were at least partially the cause.

It's really rather interesting, and often overlooked due to the maximization of the slavery issue. To put it very very simply, the South was mainly settled by people of Wales, Ireland and Scotland, wheras the North was mostly settled by English immigrents. The culture clash is rather apparent, even today.