[joqxfdzq] Who won the Civil War?

If the battle was over maintaining a lower class, distinguished by the color of their skin, with few rights and little hope for upward mobility, then the South won.  Well, not really: just the African-Americans in both the North and South lost.

If the battle was over federal power versus state power, then the North won.  Well, not really: just all the states in both the North and the South lost.

Within this framework, the conventional narrative that the Civil War was over slavery seems a pretty fat lie: a story written by the victors, or propaganda to have gotten people to support a war, smoke and mirrors to hide the real motives.