The Civil War was about slavery. Was the election of Trump about racism?
History shows this will be a difficult question. In the "Cornerstone Speech" given by Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America delivered in Savannah, Georgia on March 21, 1861, he laid the "cornerstone" of the Civil War, or what some in the south call "The Great War of Northern Aggression." To this very day there is debate among some who wish to white wash the motives of those who led, fought, and planned the defense of the Confederacy. Let there be no debate about the foundation and purpose of the war. From Stephens' speech: "The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy founda...