And that differs him from any Southerner you care to name how?
“And that differs him from any Southerner you care to name how?”
In regards to his attitudes towards blacks, perhaps not at all. However, unlike many Southerners, he was no ideologically committed to slavery and certainly valued preservation of the Union over preservation of slavery. Thus, it would be hard to view him and Jefferson Davis as 2 peas in a pod, for example.
It differs not a jote from from soft racism practiced by RINOs and liberals. It is this soft racism which allowed a second rate student like Obama to matriculate at Harvard and go on to his affirmative action post at the White House.