Not paranoia, and I don't live in the South. I have never lived in the South.
When you kill 750,000 people in a war to stop independence, you have to justify your bloodshed by making the other side look evil. This only works if you refuse to acknowledge the evil you yourself have committed.
Well paranoia appears to run deep wherever you live.
When you kill 750,000 people in a war to stop independence of rebellion, you have to justify your bloodshed by making the other side look evil.
Hence the Confederate Mythology Machine that you seem to depend on.