Shrillland wrote:Narland wrote:The problem is that is an oversimplification. Were there white supremacists in power, absolutely. Did that represent most Confederates? Probably not, else the Civilized Tribes of Amerind, and a majority of Hispanics and Latinos would not have fought on the side of the Rebels against the Union.
Not necessarily true, the "Civilised Tribes" actually had quite a few slave owners amongst them. Among the Cherokee alone, there were 3,200 slaves at the time of removal that went with them to Oklahoma, and the number just grew from there.
I suspect the answer is somewhere in between the rubrics of slavery, Northern Aggression, Oppressive, Taxation, White Supremacy, Abolition & Brotherhood of All Man, and the 2nd Great Awakening. I have a hard time sympathizing with the South since the sides of my family that were here in the States at the time were nearly all radical republican abolitionists, revivalists, or tribes unaffected at the time by the Civil War. The Union was politically incorrect but morally right in its overall stance, and the Secessionists were politically correct, but morally wrong in theirs. Most people like simple solutions, and the Civil War was anything but.
