Just what I asked. And in 1863 had the South won Gettysburg there is no way in Hell Lee would not have moved on Washington . He would have had to or the North would have rebounded and destroyed him and his army, ending any idea of a peaceful, live and let live, slave-owning Southern Utopia. Victory in war changes plans. So if the South had won, would I be permitted to say, live in Georgia and been permitted remember my Yankee ancestors?
It would be a bit like British immigrants remembering their soldiers who died in the War for American Independence and the war of 1812. The vast majority of Americans would hold that what Britian fought for was wrong, but I doubt they would stop immigrant Brits from remembering their dead if they wanted to.
The lame attempt to conflate our Founding Fathers who held slaves to the confeds who sought to force the Peculiar Institution onto a nation that was turning away from the abhorrent practice is pathetic. Public opinion against slavery was sweeping the nation but these men weren't beneath any tactic - however low - in order to perpetuate their economic hegemony.
The fire-eaters who drummed up support for tearing our nation apart knew full well the firestorm they were igniting, but they didn't care. Their intent was to directly challenge the northern states for control of the western territories - ensuring decades of conflict and misery. Don't ever let anyone tell you that they "just want to be left alone" - that's total BS.
We are the greatest nation on God's green earth because we overcame those cowards who would have destroyed us for their own selfish profit.