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Joe Tainter The Civil War?
It was fought over ports.
The port in Savannah, Georgia was the biggest port in America.
And the ports in Boston, New York were struggling.
And the North said, hey, why don't you guys send some of that our way?
You guys got more than you can handle.
And they said, fuck you, no.
No, we're not sending you any of our stuff.
And they just kind of went, well, then fuck you.
We're going to come down and take it.
But how are we going to get the American people to get behind that?
We'll say it's to free the slaves.
Yeah, I have a house in the south.
That's what it was about.
It was about the ports.