re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

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South fired first.

Twice

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Yep.

Lincoln hadn't even taken office the first time.

Lincoln wasn't going to launch an attack because of the risk that it would drive other border states to join the Confederacy. If the South Carolinians don't get all shooty, there's a real chance there would have been a diplomatic solution and possibly even a peaceful parting of the ways.