In the spirit of Christmas peace, have some inhalable caffeine:
My 2 cents on the Civil War: If the assassination of Lincoln and the rule of the Radical Reconstructionists. If both of those things hadn’t happened, perhaps the divide that still exists wouldn’t be there.
If Booth had missed there would be no blacks in the USA. Lanky's plan was to ship them to Haiti and Liberia. It was a plan he endorsed and help construct.
There is no nobility here. the unreconstructed truth was Lincoln was a racist, as were most Republicans at the time. The early Republicans were using the abolitionists (sort of like the way conservatives are used now ironically) to gain power. The real reason what early Republican did not want slavery in the western territories was to keep it pure for the white race. Fact.
The radical Republicans acted in response to southern attempts to reinstate slavery.
Of course it would have been nice if the southerners didn’t attempt to reinstate slavery. It would have been if they hadn’t started the war to start with.
Once they did one, the logical response was the other.
Perhaps, but I believe that the divide as demonstrated by the neo-confederates here represent a tiny fringe and nowhere any sort of mainstream.
Most northerners (and by northerners I mean the traditional northern states, the southwest, western, and pacific northwest states, as well as the majority of the border states and significant portions of several southern states) aren't preoccupied with the WBTS other than from a historical perspective. Lost Causers, on the other hand, are totally obsessed and allow it to figure into every aspect of their day~to~day lives.
So you have a truly transformative event like a civil war and the reconstruction in which the "conquered" were afforded the most tolerant treatment of any failed rebellion to date, fast-forward 150 years to see that same region prospering better than most of the country, and still you have some curmudgeons who lament the passing of the failed rebellion.
In the final analysis those contrarian Lost Cause Losers are so few in number that they have to shout and act disruptively or else you wouldn't even know they're there at all lol.