That's simultaneously the least intelligent and most anti-American comment I've read on FR in quite a while.
Feel free to cite the massacre in which Abraham Lincoln personally ordered the extrajudicial execution of 8,000 unarmed prisoners.
Abraham Lincoln invaded the South to “preserve the union” (akin to “preserving Yugoslavia” - the one created by the same Allies that demanded it be dismantled seventy years later). Many more than 8,000 people died in his illegal war to stifle the states’ guaranteed constitutional right to leave the union.
Don’t let the facts cloud your biases, though; the Southern states (birthplace of so many founding fathers) were every bit as “American” as (if not more than) the Northern states (and still are).