Maybe or maybe not. The south is where a lot of the collectivists started to congregate; I was looking up the history of the DOJ recently, and apparently the modern DOJ was inspired by the confederate version, giving inordinate powers to the executive and all.
Maybe so.
The north abandoned slavery mostly because they realized they could get cheaper and better skilled labor from Europe. The European labor was easier to assimilate. The labor was cheaper because they didn’t have to house and feed the Europeans.