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I always use Mississippi's:
Oh, and boy does it go on from there.
Agreed, I don't see how anyone honest could read any of the letters of secession and not instantly see how slavery is the primary reason. South Carolina's letter (first state to leave) is a nice easy counter argument to the states' rights crowd, since it goes on and on for pages explicitly denying the northern states rights and whining that the north should be forced to enforce slavery laws there by the federal government, and how dare the northern states disobey federal laws enforcing slave owner's "rights." And the eventual confederate constitution would explicitly ban any state from outlawing slavery. Doesn't sound very "states' rights" to me:
They see it as the primary reason they just veil it with pleasantries because it's hard to deal with the fact that their forefathers were unequivocally racists, traitors and general bigots.
This is Republicans were talking about. Honesty is a disqualifying characteristic for the party.