Decades before the US.
Question: Why are you attacking almost half of the United States, for something that they also wanted to abolish only a few years later?
Given that the confederate constitution explicitly talks about expanding slavery into new territories, and that the secession Declarations of Causes are all overwhelmingly about protecting slave property, it hardly seems to be the case that they were wanting to abolish the peculiar institution "a few years later."
Pride about Dixie and what it stands for, is obviously something you will never know....The people of America's South are very proud of their history.
And I'm very proud of the history of my home state of Illinois, where my ancestors broke the prairie sod with their own sweat instead of that of slaves, who fought to preserve the union, and who gave America Abraham Lincoln (who, by the way, practiced law in my town when he was riding circuit).
But I guess you'll never understand that. Too bad.
As I recall, that history also includes a rather unpleasant reception (to put it as charitably as possible) for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy at the Chicago open housing marches in 1966. But that's been 40 years ago, and I'm sure things have changed there, too.