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just out of curiosity, WHERE did you get that REVISIONIST/STATIST bilge??

fwiw, the revolution of our southern ancestors against our northeastern "masters" (the financial/social/intellectual/business ELITES) was a PEASANT REVOLT, led by a relative handful of professionals like Robert E. Lee & Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson.

that is one of the main reasons that our southern ancestors failed in their quest for FREEDOM. = peasant revolts seldom succeed. (the only one that i can think of offhand, that it can be argued that did succeed, was the Vietnamese revolution.)

had the south won, the southern "plantation aristocracy" might well have been NEXT on "the list of dixie's enemies", as they had in all too many cases collaborated with the invading DAMNyankee army. ( nature is unkind to TURNCOATS.)

free dixie,sw

The fact the Southern people split their allegiance between north and south (the north had regiments from all southern states but one) proves your statement is false. Let alone all the black peasants that left to go north and fight the south.

So I don't buy your revisionist history as the civil war being a peasant revolt. But I do appreciate your view point and it is a valid view you provided.