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When you're used to privilege, not getting your way feels like oppression (media.piefed.social)
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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Both are accurate, and really each of the states had their own reasons and concerns. You can read first-hand justifications for secession in the South Carolina Declaration of Secession which outlines how the federal government failed to uphold their end of the Constitution specifically by failing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.