I saw a quote from a historian years ago (I wish I could find it) that went something like this:
When I was young I thought the Civil War was about slavery,
When I started to learn more about history I thought it was about more than slavery,
When I really studied the Civil War I realized it was completely about slavery.
It's easy for people to get tripped up by their own ideologies and lose site of the time period that the Civil War occurred in. If you're all about states' rights these days, it's easy to focus on that part of the Civil War because it fits your narrative. Unfortunately it ignores that the only states' right that they were really concerned with was that which kept slavery legal.
I know this because there was definitely a time when I felt that way. Thankfully I eventually realized I was wrong.
It's easy for people to get tripped up by their own ideologies and lose site of the time period that the Civil War occurred in. If you're all about states' rights these days, it's easy to focus on that part of the Civil War because it fits your narrative. Unfortunately it ignores that the only states' right that they were really concerned with was that which kept slavery legal.
I know this because there was definitely a time when I felt that way. Thankfully I eventually realized I was wrong.