So the southerners who rebelled - and proudly said it was over slavery - were “leftards”?
“So the southerners who rebelled - and proudly said it was over slavery - were leftards?”
No, but people who think the wartime bluster of a *few* slaveholders represents the thinking of the whole Confederacy have been deceived by leftards.
And there’s no justification for putting “leftards” in danger quotes. It is both accurate and appropriate.