This forum has a cadre of revolving South bashers.
maybe MSNBC is their day job.
My ancestor Patrick Slain was a Union cavalryman. There were gallant, honest men fighting on both sides. The media loves to harp on slavery, which was not by any stretch the main issue at the time, and I believe that the South was considering banning slavery - I don't recall if it was on the table for after the war, or if the Europeans got involved, or what (look it up).
I don't think Lincoln was the devil incarnate, as some seem to. I don't think the confederates were imps from hell, as most seem to believe.
Overall, despite the fact that I'm a northerner, live in the north, am descended of a Union man, etc, my sympathies lay with the South and States rights.
That said, I don't believe by a longshot that the south will rise again. Its over.
The Civil War was NOT about Slavery,in fact Grant had some interesting comments on that subject.