User blog comment:Daxus Inferno/There Are Two Types of People.../@comment-24564179-20130807030534/@comment-32656-20130814115732

Whether you think they would have happened anyway or not without slavery - which is not accurate, mind, as there is no difference between the two halves on those two areas worth mentioning past slavery - is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is, otl, they had to do with slavery. And as such, there was not one reason for that war that was not slavery-based.

Groups like those death squads existed in the South both before and after the war. Southerners also led many excursions into other countries - Texas, Florida, and Walker's adventures, to name some.

Wrong about both of those things, Guns. Not one or the other.