“Thankfully the racists running the Southern Government lost.”
You seem to imply that racialism is a southern thing, and not something that drove northern policies.
Here’s a quote that you may wish to incorporate into future posts - it is from a slave state-born politician that rose to national prominence in the years prior to War Between the States.
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
Indeed, racism was not and is not a simple matter of North vs South. Martin Luther King noted that the most hostile reception he ever experienced was in Illinois, while George Lincoln Rockwell's most hostile audience was in North Carolina...