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'The cause of the Civil War was slavery': Historian weighs in on Nikki Haley's answer

Dec 28, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

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-10% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "[A]n increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution," the South Carolina Declaration of Secession states, according to the National Constitution Center.
48% : Taylor said that historical documentation and news coverage of political debates at the time show how central it was to the conflict.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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