“Traveling to NOVA deeply sickens me when I realize the legacy they have squandered.
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Civil War battlefield yet the area is deep blue northern.”
I don’t think even Lincoln himself would have countenanced this total destruction of the southern (ie American) culture. What’s happening is more like what Hitler and Stalin did to poor Poland.
The worst enemy the South ever had was John Wilkes Booth. He was a jackass who brought a wave of vindictiveness upon the South that still hasn't receded.
Lincoln was not vindictive. He planned to resettle former slaves to their homelands. He bore no animosity toward the South. He would have healed this country.