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Who is to blame for the civil war?

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The ultra-wealthy cotton farming elite of the lower south (below North Carolina) were mainly to blame for starting the Civil War. They demanded "states rights" over federally mandated rights. The primary right they were seeking to retain, of course, was the right to have slaves.

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