>I agree. Tea Party sees only what they want to. Watch them next try to claim slavery never really existed! (hint: they've already started by claiming the Civil War was all about state's rights and not really slavery!)
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>As a child in the 1960's, my history books said the same thing. That was a long time before the tea party movement existed. Get a grip.

As much as I hate to agree even partially with Marcia, it was about state's rights as well as slavery. Along with a healthy dose of the economic disparity between north and south.

Maybe we need another 9/11 to bring us back together because IMO this country has not been this divided since the Civil War.