Don ' t ever ask when ' s the baby due ? <| sep |> The thing about the social safety net is that no one ever thinks they ' ll need it . <| sep |> This should be in the FAQ instead of the current politically correct nonanswer to what style should I train ? .<| sep |> Maybe a vest . <| sep |> That sounds right , now that you say it . I knew it was somewhere in the PNW . <| sep |> And that is , the sum of it all . The South undeniably seceded over the issue of slavery . Their words and actions cry it from the rooftops . Lincoln , while entering the war to preserve the perpetual union of the states , never had slavery far from his mind . It was that fact which drove secession , and it was the splintering of the nation that allowed Lincoln ' s antislavery to transition from personal conviction into a policy of emancipation as the war dragged on . Less than a year after the first shot was fired upon Fort Sumter , Lincoln was contemplating how he could bring about the end of slavery , and by the next , he had made his move , ensuring the eventual destruction of the South ' s peculiar institution . While the accepted history of the war for many decades following lionized the Lost Cause of the south , and romanticized the conflict , all to downplay the base values of the Confederacy , that narrative is nothing more than a legend , a falsehood , and in recent decades has , rightfully , been eclipsed by a revitalization of scholarship that has returned slavery to its rightful place in the history of the American Civil War . No need for personal insults , by the way .