What is with history revisionists Republicans and the American Civil War?

The southern states seceded because of slavery. Period. There is no other reason. You can read the Declarations of Secession from those states, and they CLEARLY said that it was the issue of slavery that drove them to this. Mississippi even goes so far as to say that African Slaves are the only ones adapted to work in their fields.

Revisionist republicans crow on about "states rights". Sure, but the "right" that they were referring to is SLAVERY. That is a basic true fact. So what is the hubbub about removing confederate monuments? I bet most of the cities and towns with these monuments had more confederate monuments than US monuments. Am I right?

Take them all down and put them in museums where they belong.

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ViciDraco · 41-45, M

No one was even taking away slavery. The states rights they were afraid of losing was the ability to violate another state's rights by sending people into their borders to hunt for escaped slaves, a status that the free states did not even legally recognize.

They just wanted carte blanch to hunt down escapees in places that didn't consider them property or criminals that could be extradited.