Of course it was the primary cause. Only Southerners or idiots pretend otherwise.

Some like to claim it was 'states rights.' Sure - the right to decide whether or not to be a slave state.

Or economic issues - the economy of the South depended on slavery.

No one need have been killed if "y'all" hadn't seceded and attacked the North. So that, like slavery, is on "y'all."

There won't be a second Civil War.

And what little you know serves the interests of the slaveholders and traitors, sadly.

Funny comment about 'rationalization,' though...lol