I think everybody here (and anybody who knows REAL history, as most conservatives DO) realizes that the Confederacy was a just cause and the incredibly violent federal power grab that ended it was a monumental crime. Lincoln was a war criminal.
Yes, I've read the Maryland State Anthem.
There’s a little bitty matter of putting God first, after all.
To leave, the South had to double down on slavery, its former life line to things in the North severed.
God blessed America’s creation to be a unity.
“I think everybody here (and anybody who knows REAL history, as most conservatives DO) realizes that the Confederacy was a just cause”
Not everyone here, including myself, agrees with your view. Just because the simplistic approach of the leftists to American history (which interprets nearly everything through the theoretical lens of Communism) is wrong, does not automatically support equally simplistic views to the contrary.