I've read plenty enough pro-Confederate propaganda to well know there's no truth in any of it.
It's all nonsense & mythology.
I also know your mythology was designed to re-unite Southern Democrats with their pre-Civil War Northern Democrat allies, by making "Ape" Lincoln and his "Black Republicans" villains of the story.
And the myths worked great, first electing President Cleveland in 1884, followed by such notables as Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
But by the time of President Truman's reelection in 1948, your old alliance was beginning to fall apart, because Truman supported greater civil rights, and so we saw Strom Thurman's Dixiecrats carry several Deep South states.
Then in 1964, for the first time ever, those same states voted Republican -- for Senator Goldwater.
But Southern enthusiasm for Republicans has waxed & waned over the years.
In 1980 most Southern counties voted for the Democrat Georgia Peanut, Carter, and in 1992 & 96 they split their votes along old Southern Confederate vs. Unionist lines, with Appalachia voting Republican, Cotton counties voting for Democrat Slick Willie.
Since 2000 the South has been very reliably Republican, voting for Bush, McCain and even Romney.
Does that mean all the old Dixiecrats have shuffled off this mortal coil?
No, some are still with us, but they constantly chafe under the rule of Republican history, as opposed to old Democrats' pro-Confederate mythology.
And so they frequently come on Free Republic, to see if they can't get some Northerners -- anybody, anywhere - to buy into their old stuff & nonsense.
Right?
Our FRiend Pelham was just indulging in a little Liberal Projection™ - just to keep in practice.
Moderate and conservative Republicans of the civil war era regarded the Radical Republicans as villains, and particularly dangerous ones. Some even suspected that Stanton was involved in Lincoln’s assassination.