The Civil War was sold as a war to free the slaves when it was really a war against States Rights - a war to ENSLAVE. Slavery was on the way out thanks to invention and innovation. The North wanted to enslave the South and so it did. This was the first big Socialist move to Collectivize America. America is Socialist for the last 100 years - since 1913 and the income tax, retirement tax and the Federal Reserve's money monopoly. This explains why America is bankrupt, crime ridden, mis educated, indebted beyond any means of repayment (America is a debt slave country) and a mad bomber of defenseless countries around the globe, etc.... The collectivization of America is near complete as the symbol of States Rights is lowered. Ironically, the Confererate Flag was lowered in the false belief that it was racist, and the false hope of cooling race relations.