you state that only 1 in 3 southerners in 1860 thought it was about slavery, so that means it was all about slavery?
What kind of common core mathematics is that?
And the recent link I provided states that HALF of all Southerners were either a slave, or from a slave-owning family.
You find it necessary justification to speak in absolutes when it suits you? But in exception when needed.
1/2 the population were either slaves of from a slave owning family, which, given 1/3 were slaves, that must mean 1/6 of the south were slave owning families.
That leaves a 3 to 1 ratio of whitey's that didn't have slaves, and yet, again, it was all about slavery....
