[FLT-bird]

OK fair enough. My position is that everybody accepted the abolition of slavery and didn’t really contest it. It was the consolidation of power in imperial Washington that Southerners did not accept.

[DiogenesLamp]

OK fair enough. My position is that everybody accepted the abolition of slavery and didn’t really contest it.

I very greatly doubt the people of the South agreed to this. They just knew they couldn't stop it, and so resigned themselves to it happening.

We are led to believe they fought a long bloody war to keep slavery, and then we are expected to believe they just gave it up willingly?

These two notions don't fit in the same universe with each other.