Slavery had everything to do with the war.Southerners try to make it into something else,just to make excuses for their prejudices.Yes, I am a yankee and I'm here to stay.
When people have problems with their country they have elected people to speak up for them.They don't fight against their own country.
I really have problem with prejudice, because my children are half Mexican.Their father was born here,his father was born here,his father was born here and so on. One of their ancestors even fought in the civil war on the southerners side.But when the people down here see my children they automatically think they are illegal aliens, and treat them with prejudice. In my opinion they are more American then most people(with the exception of the the American Indian), because their earliest ancestors were born in this country and have never lived in what we now consider Mexico.