[BroJoeK]

Levy78: "Add ‘insatiable desire for the northern descendants of the puritans to impose their will on everyone’ busy body Yankees caused the CW and are the root of our ills today."

Nonsense, you have it exactly backwards.
Even in 1860 something like 90% of Northerners (along with Lincoln) were content to let slavery exist, unmolested, in the South.
For decades Northerners had helped elect Southern slaveholder Presidents like Democrats Andrew Jackson & James Polk and Whigs William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor.

In the 1850s Northerners helped elect Democrat Doughfaced Northerners Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, men happy to advance the Southern agenda, including a Southern transcontinental rail route and the SCOTUS Dred Scott ruling.

So most Northerners were not opposed to either the South or to slavery, and many understood how much of American prosperity depended on them.
What Northerners did oppose and would not tolerate was the expansion of slavery into US western territories (i.e., Kansas) and even (via the SCOTUS Dred Scott ruling) to their own states.

As Lincoln said in 1858:

"We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State."

That was too much to swallow and that's what flipped many previously sympathetic Northern Democrat voters to the anti-slavery Republican party.
It wasn't hatred of the South, it was fear that slavery would be forced down their own throats.