[Alas Babylon!]

Oh, you're right about the war. I'm Alabamian. Very few whites owned slaves. The planter class were the 1%'ers.

But you said: Sherman in today's America would have been labeled a fascist, bigot, racist, Nazi.

In today's America--that is, the SJW's America, Sherman would have been a hero to THEM, because he fought the so-called (again by them) Slave Power.

That's the only thing I was challenging.

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Census figures say slaves were well over 40% of Alabama's population in 1860. You don't get that many slaves without a largish percentage of the population owning slaves.

And since heads of households were the ones who owned property (women rarely did, and children didn't either) the percentage of families owning slaves could amount to as much as 1 in 3.

Census figures

Even if there is some softness or weakness in the figures given, it's clear that many Alabama families owned or aspired to own slaves.