Your view of why the south fought is misled. There is a bias on here that the south fought due to state rights but this is false and can be proven that the primary purpose for secession was due to the fact that the southern democrats would lose on the slave war. It was not about state rights, the southern democrats, just like the Republicans were trying to federalize slavery but instead of making it illegal, they wanted to federalize it to make it legal for all states. It was the northern democrats that wanted to keep it a state right.