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GWTW was a romance novel. The movie was a romance movie. Romance novels and romance movies have exactly zero obligation to be even marginally historically accurate. There are a ton of romance novels set in the Middle Ages which are incredibly historically inaccurate and nobody complains about that.
And... GWTW is a romance novel from the POV of Scarlett who is a complete idiot and I don't think either the reader or viewer is supposed to trust her perception of the things that are going on.
It can be argued that we are supposed to have some confidence in the way Rhett sees things - but Rhett doesn't see things at all the way she does. Also, he's mostly just a good looking "bad boy" which is all the male lead needs to be in a romance.
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The Slavers gave no shits about any "state's right" that wasn't "to own slaves". They didn't even give a shit about the right of non-slave states to not have slaves - they attempted to force slavery on those states.
The Slavers' Rebellion was about slavery and the Slavers' insistence that they must always be allowed slavery, full stop.
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Yes, slavery was a part of the war, but it was hardly the entire point of it - in the same way that guns rights and abortion won't really be the subjects of the next civil war, just an excuse for the ongoing argument between state and federal power.
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The South *did* rebel, and start the war, expressly to keep slavery.
and: The south also believed that overall that government existed to protect people with minority opinions from people with the current majority opinion.
Not exactly. The south believed, overall, that government existed to protect rich white slaveowners from everyone else. But you're right in that rich white slaveowners *were* a minority.
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I suspect that until it is decided one way or another with a new constitution we'll get the same civil war every 100 years or so and it will always seem like different issues on the surface but be the same fundamental fight.
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Like with the EU - there are people who think the UK's current treaty commitments to the EU (which are pretty clear, much clearer than what the US constitution says about federal powers if you actually read all the stuff) are "too much EU" and we should get ourselves out of them (including the view that we should leave the EU entirely); and there are people who think that we need more EU and should sign up to more things (for instance that we should join the Euro).
I don't think the clarity of the legislation on which integration is based is the problem. I think the problem is that people disagree on what the right level(s) to make decisions is/are. I don't think there's any way to satisfy everyone on that score.
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