dr. pitcaithley: dr. pitcaithley: i think, a couple of answers to that. to place blame, -- i encourage my students not to look for blame. it is sort of a useless exercise. there a number of ways to look at that. person if you want to blame somebody, you might blame eli whitney, right? in 1793, which created the cotton gin, which people were making money before that. that just exploded it. andou hear -- here elsewhere, slavery was incredibly, incredibly profitable. werenk my students, if i teaching at texas tech, may be a texas school, one of the seceded states, west texas and love -- has anybody been to lubbock? get a different answer fire was teaching in mississippi, there might be a different answer. after i had my students to that list of what caused secession, then i had them vote. one student, one vote. wrote all of their topics on the boards. nine timests wins out of 10, very partial, that lost cause interpretation of the war. whether we understand it or not. because we are talking about protecting states rights is easier than talking about protecti

dr. pitcaithley -- he is kind of a rock star for us. teaches attired, he new mexico state university, teaches about history and civil war history and he had a book that came out this week, "the u.s. constitution and