It wasn't supposed to be about the South.
Let me tell you how did it start.
Did you hear about Earth Hour before? Well, according to discredited Wikipedia:
"it's held on the last Saturday of March each year, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change".I don't believe in climate change (caused by humans anyway), so after turning all lights on at home I jumped into my gas guzzler and drove away for two hours.
On my cruise I bought brilliant CD (yes it's environmentally unfriendly 1.2mm thick polycarbonate piece of plastic) called "Country Roots". What a pleasure ;)
What remained me to ask all this question again...
What trigger Civil War? Why Dixie people opposed good cause?
Why United States didn't follow Britain and just bought up and freed all slaves? Was it about slavery at all? Maybe it was about Republic and how that idea was executed?
Couple of articles to think about...
The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate
The Economics of the Civil War
Reasons for the Civil War
I forced my girlfriend's family to turn off their lights for Earth Hour. Had a great conversation in the dark in their kitchen.
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