You are an intolerant South hating bigot and because the war was not about slavery, that is the reason why you can't will never understand. My God fearing ancestors were not toothless idiots and they believed in the Constitution, as written, and knew the tyranny that was coming, so slavery was the issue but not the cause.
You, like so many others, are are looking at the past thru a 21st century lens. My ancestors were from the Roanoke region. None of them owned slaves and most of them were bricklayers and carpenters. Yes, believe it or not, WHITE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WORKED in antebellum south. You have stereotyped the South to your liking, and have devoured the reconstructed history of that era the fits in nicely with the progressive movement that followed. The bastardization of the US Constitution required this brainwashing as to mask the true horror done to the republic by the "Goon with the extra hole in his head" and you are a prime, albeit boring, typical example.
I still don’t understand how your ancestors, with their livelihood debased and degraded by being forced to work next to people in bondage, supported the horrible political class of slave owners. See, when low price workers flood the market, high priced workers take a hit. Just as low priced illegal aliens today make it difficult for carpenters to make a living, absent corruption and government rules that require union pay scales.
The solders of NC were wonders. They were tough, hard fighters. Furthest at Gettysburg, and Chicamauga, and the last rebel state conquered, they deserved the highest praise for their military achievements. Sadly, the 64th was coerced into murdering other people from NC. NC had permitted freedmen to vote up until 1835, and its community had, before then, potential to lead the south out of the abyss of race based slavery. I think that the issue for NC came down to a hair’s breath, a razors edge that perhaps if people like your ancestors had a bit more information (newspapers in slave states were tightly controlled by the slave power) and the slave power was able to get a bit less federal patronage (that nearly all went to the slave owners) a different path may have resulted. In both cases, government corruption led, in my view to the bad result. Federal corruption in the case of federal patronage, state corruption in the case of slave power censorship of newspapers.
Today, I oppose federal corruption and state corruption in the hopes that good and limited government may lead to a better result.