Having just finished a beer, I would perhaps think that beer drinking rednecks would be my good friends. When I threw my barbeque parties in Texas, I invited people to bring their barbeque guns. We all got along together fine.
Although slaves were coerced by yankee slave traders in the slave trade, southern plantation owners were not. At any time any state had the right to change the domestic institution of slavery. Northern states abolished slavery before the Civil war. Southern states didn’t. That is the difference.
One can condemn northern states for not ending slavery earlier. One can condemn southern states for not ending slavery earlier. in that way they are similar.
Slave importers killed perhaps a third of their ‘cargo’ on the way. Prices for slaves in Africa were low, in the US and other slave countries were high, and that economic decision mattered more than simple humanity. In that way the slave importers were worse than the slave drivers.
The slave trade was banned by the US, using its constitutional authority as of 1808 and US Navy sent forces to assist the British patrol seeking to end the slave trade. That was a good thing. The slave traders didn’t start a war to extend their right to trade slaves. In that way the Yankee slave traders were better than the various slave drivers.
“When I threw my barbeque parties in Texas,”
Carpetbagger, nothing more.