A helpful hint. When asked what caused the American Civil War ;your answer should be 'slavery'. Slavery was the only cause. Any other one that you mention has roots in the issue of slavery .

Then you should say that although the topic of the Civil War is interesting ;you should then suggest that your greater concern is what divides the nation today.

She finally got it right yesterday after facing criticism for omitting it as a cause earlier this week at a town hall forum.

Nikki Haley declines to say US civil war was about slavery (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4guzMmLK7o)


Nikki Haley Responds to Civil War Comment on Good Morning New Hampshire - The Pulse of NH (https://thepulseofnh.com/good-morning-nh/nikki-haley-responds-to-civil-war-comment-on-good-morning-new-hampshire/)

I think a person would be hard pressed to find a person in the U.S. who is in favor of slavery. Those silly kinds of questions do no good at all.

yes it is a gotcha question she should've been prepared to answer. Being the former Guv of South Carolina ;the cradle of the Confederacy, she should've been able to give an answer that was not a dodge. She has to know the MO of the compliant press by now . Build em up -cut em down. Create the narrative.

Politco takes the cake In a 24 hr news cycle they went from calling her rise in the polling as "Haley's comet " . The next day their headline was "Nikki Haley's Moment of Crisis "

Playbook: Nikki Haley’s moment of truth - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/12/27/nikki-haleys-moment-of-truth-00133227)

Playbook: Nikki Haley’s moment of crisis - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/12/28/nikki-haleys-moment-of-crisis-00133265)


“I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,”

That is Kam the Sham like gibberish. She's too smart for that .

If she wants to suggest that the cause of the CW was states' rights, then she's onto something, but it still comes down to slavery being the ongoing crisis that caused the pot to boil over, and it would good for her to add that the South was flat wrong on that issue. And I say that as a dyed in the wool Southerner.

Correct . "State's right" (actually state's powers )were and will always be an issue of debate in this country. Slavery was the tipping point . Before then South Carolina tried the state's rights card during the Nullification Crisis of 1833.


She has nothing to apologize for . She was the one who removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol.

And that would likewise be a good point for her to offer up.

Gave the matter some thought. Probably her best answer would've been to preserve the Union. It the fissure of slavery that resulted in the South's secession. It was not a forgone conclusion that it would result in war. There were those in the north who would not have led the country to war.

Lincoln was one of them.