It's Confederate History Month in Dixie

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The South had no right to secede.

That's debatable.

It was nothing but the blind, unrelenting thirst for power, which had driven the South to force its way of life on the rest of the Union for ninety years, and which finally drove it to plunge the nation into the bloodiest conflict it has ever experienced.

How exactly did the South force it's way of life onto the rest of the Union? Individual states could choose to ban slavery, as was their right under the 10th Amendment, and many did.