It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
Well said. Nice and concise.
Some of these people are convinced that Jefferson Davis and company were "just plain folks" or "people like us" who were fed up with taxes, while unionists and Republicans were the evil elite. In fact, the leaders of the rebellion were a ruling elite that had put a lot of effort into defending slavery and expanding its territory. If they'd won, those who are complaining now would just have something else to complain about, assuming they weren't members of this particularly oppressive and overbearing elite.
Woods's pals at lewrockwell.com are really talking up his book, as they did Lorenzo's. Watch and see if he comes out with a "study guide" to hit the rubes up for another $20. This thing is a racket that preys on the gullible. It's sad because plenty of them are just people who want to have pride in their region or do something conservative or patriotic, and they're being sold a pack of lies.
Those of us with any conception of reality understand that the Slavers destroyed the South and brought one of the greatest catastrophes in history down on it condemning the region to a century of poverty and racism. Pride in the region should not mean that we are blind to the Slavers' shenanigans and evils. Southerners paid the highest price possible for following that leadership.
There has never been an aristocracy in this nation other than that of the South and it was as close-minded as all others determined never to allow progress to interfere with its prerogatives. Even its slaves considered the common folk white trash good only to die unquestioningly protecting the Masters' life style.