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Many Southern leaders and wealthy plantation owners believed the the South was becoming marginalized by the ever expanding North. The institution of slavery caused a cultural divide among ordinary citizens on both sides of the upcoming armed conflict.

On an overall basis, at least in the first few years of the US Civil War, many Southerners saw that only independence from the Union would secure their social, economic and political way of life.

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