The
 far right was able to start misrepresenting the Civil War late in the 
19th century: it was about states' rights (to create 
insurrection/war/treason against one's own country) not slavery...  
Except that each seceding state created a new Constitution that featured
 a white person's right to own black people as slaves; recover and 
punish any slaves that might have escaped.  
Two
 terms of an African American President and minority-majority (white 
people as the largest minority, where all the other races total a 
majority of the US population) drove the crazy, insecure, white 
(northern European Americans) out of what little sanity they retained.
If
 the right, wing nuts lose this round of a combat free, re-prosecution 
of the Civil War without consequences (investigation, documentation, 
indictment and prosecution in a court of law) they'll be back, again, as
 soon as they can regroup.
 
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