http://www.historynet.com/causes-of-the-civil-warthis is a pretty good read, especially the piece at the bottom, the featured article I believe. Plenty of blame to go around and it is some what scary that it so closely mirrors what we are seeing happen today.
Oh, that won't work. Plenty of blame to go around is not acceptable. It's always just one parties fault: the other one. And they taught the blacks that too, and now see what we have: a bunch of white johnny reb wannabes and a bunch of black lazy ass idiots who just want to blame me for something that happened 150 years ago that I had no part in and neither did they, but they want to act like they did. Hard to decide who's worse. Peas in a pod.