OK, am I getting this right? The New Englanders/Yankees were more prejudiced and racist than the slave owners/Confederates in the south. Is that what you're trying to say? I never took to American history much, sorry.
I visited St. Augustine Florida once and did feel really confused by what my traditional education had taught me regarding the first colonies, etc.
I'm still confused.
the new england yankees INSIST that their view of the world is the ONLY legitimate view. (homosexual "marriage"/abortion on demand/"gun control"/tolerance for illegal substance abuse/high taxes/affirmative action/etc MUST be accepted by EVERYONE because the intellectual/social/academic LEFTIST elites out of the northeast SAY that EVERYONE must approve and PREFERABLY publicly ACCEPT their particular prejudices.)
my dear friend, the Reverend Father Alister Anderson, says that the "lust for domination of others" is a DIRECT descendant of the RADICAL-fringe Puritanism out of new england. the coercive RELIGIOUS fanaticism of Cotton Mather & others of that sort has been replaced by SECULAR HUMANIST fanaticism of an equally coercive sort.
otoh, in the southland the opinion is and always has been, "do whatever you like at your place so long as you keep it at home & out of my face". thus, you can freely practice your religion UNdisturbed, whether one may be Jewish,a Baptist, a Muslim,a Buddhist, a Roman Catholic or a "snake-handler".
FEW or NO southerners will care WHAT religion you practice as long as you HAVE one (there IS a longstanding prejudice in the southland against strident LOUDSPOKEN atheism.)
my business partner (who happens to be female,smart,educated,beautiful & Jewish) is insulted,discriminated against & reviled every time we go north on business.
such behavior rarely if ever happens in the southland. she asked me once why that was true. i told her that, "we have lots of folks down here that handle rattlesnakes, cottonmouths & copperheads in church. a lady that lights candles on Friday night & cooks without pork is just another sort of "church lady" & looks "pretty tame" by comparison!
THAT is the MAJOR difference between north & south. we want to be LEFT ALONE;the damnyankee DEMANDS that we be like them and/or that we remain UNDER THEIR BOOT.
btw, for the southerner,TWBTS was MOSTLY a war to be "left alone". i.e., the war was about personal LIBERTY.
for the damnyankee the war was NOT about slavery OR preservation of the union. it was about CONTROL & PERMANENT political/moral/social/intellectual DOMINATION of the whole country.
free dixie,sw
Ofcourse, the South was benevolent to its slaves.
This nonsense was brought up when the South tried to point out the conditons of laborers in the North.
Lincoln noted that it was strange that no laborer went South and voluntered to become a slave.
In fact, slaves have to be hunted down by the Federal authorities to bring them home to their benevolent masters.
Here the 'State Rights'advocates had no qualms about using Federal power against other States to defend their 'properity'