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of knowing what they were against
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and who their enemy might be
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than it was actually born of a thought-
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out plan of what they were for.
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And it's also--there was also a theory
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at the root of this kind of southern nationalist,
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fledgling as it was in the Secession Crisis, that--
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and it's right there in the secession debates.
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It's rooted in the shrinking south theory,
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it's rooted in the desire to preserve a slave society--
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but it's the idea that the South's ultimate welfare
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would be better outside of the union than in,