IGN EdwardGTS poke Female , level 10 LedybaMessage Please trade Pokemon with me . Thanks in advance . Request Jolly MimikyuThank you ! <| sep |> So close , I was <| sep |> The vast majority of southern citizens wouldn ' t have even thought to make the states rights argument at the time of the civil war , the lose of their labor force was a much , much bigger factor in deciding to secede after Abraham Lincoln was elected on a ticket which specifically promised to do something about slavery . Many southern state governments even sent people who basically acted as secession ambassadors to the other states , and tried to get them to leave the union . The principle argument these guy would use was the lose of slavery . Great book about this , rooted heavily in primary sources . D i s u n i o n S o u t h e r n S e c e s s ionCommissionersdprrnXThe states rights argument existed sure , but much of the prominence of that argument arose after the war , as historians of the Lost Cause mindset tried to romanticize the war for the South . From this tradition we get things like The War of Northern Aggression , the South ' s noble lose , the South ' s heroic generals , the barbarism of the Union armies , and of course , states rights being a principal driver for secession .