Don't forget that during this time most of the educated and productive resided in the North. In the North the culture was more modern and more cosmopolitan. It was also shown that the mass majority of the South was uneducated and ignorant. The few landowners and bankers and elites(military officers) that had slaves and benefited the most were just about the most human capital that came out of the South. Lincoln did what real leaders do. He did what he though was right and a Southern rebel assasinated him for it. Their is a lot of romantacizm coming from the South but with its slavery and it's narrow agricultural economy it was bound for death anyways.
If Lincoln is so bad who is your model president?
I would like to take a moment and congratulate you. I honestly don't believe I've ever seen so much stupid and so many stereotypes crammed into one post. Ever. There's not even a place to start to respond to that. Talk about revisionism. Wait a minute....Wlat is that you?!?
KingArthur305, your Republican masters must be proud, but you'll have to a better job defending them.