“Southerners went to great lengths to suppress freedoms and maintain the abomination of slavery.”
Is that all you know?
George Washington, Father of our Country, was a southerner.
Thomas Jefferson, Father of the Declaration of Independence, was a southerner.
James Madison, Father of the Constitution, was a southerner.
George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights, was a southerner.
Patrick Henry . . .
Yes, they created the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and they would have sided with the Union.