Some scholars have suggested that The Southern Planter Class had conspired to bring about succession for twenty years before the event.

Without going into details the crux of the argument is that as Cotton depleted existing arible crop lands in the deep South, The Planter Class saw a need to expand Cotton Lands further West, With the growing sentiments against slavery in areas outside the south, planters saw the writing on the wall and the solution in a Cotton Empire all the way to California in the West and the tip of South America to the south.

What do you think of this theory?