Did you really not know that Lincoln's family moved to Indiana when he was about seven years old?
I now believe this may have been an artifice meant to appeal to the voting segment he saw as his path to power.
Did you really not know that Illinois was a Democrat state? Or that Lincoln lost his race for the Senate against Douglas?
He may have projected this as his public persona, and perhaps he even convinced himself over time that this was correct, but it seems strange that he would eschew his own culture and embrace that of others.
Slaveholding wasn't Lincoln's culture. And do you automatically support things that you think wrong because they are part of you "own culture"?
And what's with the compulsion to ascribe opportunistic motives to people you disagree with or don't like anyway? I doubt you've made a serious study of Lincoln's motivations or of those of other people then or now, so maybe you shouldn't be so quick to cast aspersions on people and their motives.
So you are suggesting he was traumatized by all the wicked slavery going on in Indiana at the time? (Been years since I've read a Lincoln biography.)
Slaveholding wasn't Lincoln's culture. And do you automatically support things that you think wrong because they are part of you "own culture"?
When it's part of your culture, it doesn't occur to most people to regard it as wrong. This sort of Oikophobia is normally a characteristic of Liberals.
And what's with the compulsion to ascribe opportunistic motives to people you disagree with or don't like anyway?
Because the evidence supports it. Lincoln repeatedly said he would do nothing to interfere with Slavery. For a year and a half, he was going to do nothing about slavery, but suddenly he decided he needed to do something about slavery, even though he also repeatedly said he had no legal authority to do anything about it.
Flip Flopping is a sign someone doesn't really hold strong principles about something. This tends to make you believe that what they say is an artifice to help their political career.