With regards to the impolite interstate relations in the US (1861-1865) I don’t call the North or the South the ‘bad guy’.
The Southern states had valid reasons for wanting to leave the Union and the greedy, selfish, imperialistic Yankees thought they had valid reasons for not letting them leave.
See? I can be perfectly unbiased in my historical assessment!
Wouldn’t want to offend a Northern sympathizer. ;-). Just making a point about what you can hear in PS. The boy was given no doubt he was right, though.