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They didn't leave the union because of slavery, but a series of state rights violations that included ending slavery.
The Dred Scott decision was a slap in the face of states rights. It basically threw out a state's right to say that they wouldn't allow slavery. No Southern apologist or states rights advocate wants to talk about it.
It wasn't about slavery is the lie that started with Jefferson Davis, because he didn't want to look like the bad guy, and it continues with people who don't want to seem like a racist when they defend the Confederacy. But, it was, according to th VP of the CSA, the "cornerstone."