To address this, we must go back to 1861, and what some states of The United States wrote about negro slavery.
Take, for example, Alex's beloved Texas. He brags that his ancestors founded The Republic of Texas in 1836. This was a result of white European settlers in Mexico rebelling against Mexico because Mexico banned slavery, which was a ban that the white European slaves opposed. So they instigated a revolution and formed their own state. Godfather of the Confederacy, Andrew Jackson, lobbied for the entry of Texas into The Union.
So why did Texas then secede from The Union?
Slavery.
Here's what Texas said about the reason for secession.
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States.
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