[WashingtonFire]

No matter what the Marxists attempt, the majority of Americans will rightly continue to see the Southerners as noble heroes who fought for their families and communities.

Slavery is a true evil that would have been eventually distinguished, but the noble and gentle people of the south would have arrived there eveuntally and didn’t need to be forced at gunpoint

[existtoexcel]

The Civil War did not start over slavery.

[IrishBrigade]

‘but the noble and gentle people of the south would have arrived there eveuntally’

which explains why they were so gung-ho on expanding slavery to the western territories...

[jean michael]

Amen.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not noble or gentle enough to share that, however... there is a point where God has to act, and He can send sinners on a foolish errand to bring it about.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

the majority of Americans will rightly continue to see the Southerners as noble heroes who fought for their families and communities.

Probably the least informed statement I have read here in a long time.

[wardaddy]

Quite a loud contingent here who work in unison who don’t agree with your accurate sentiment though now they act like Mad Magazines Newman “who me?”

[jmacusa]

Noble and gentle people of the South? Not in my book. No one forced them at gunpoint to do anything. The noble heroes opened fire on Ft. Sumter. If the South had won the war would it have ended slavery?

[DoodleDawg]

Slavery is a true evil that would have been eventually distinguished, but the noble and gentle people of the south would have arrived there eveuntally and didn’t need to be forced at gunpoint.

They shouldn't have started a war then.

[BroJoeK]

WashingtonFire: "No matter what the Marxists attempt, the majority of Americans will rightly continue to see the Southerners as noble heroes who fought for their families and communities...
...the noble and gentle people of the south would have arrived there..."

All depends on your definition of "the Southerners".
Slave-holders who ruled the Confederacy were neither "noble" nor "gentle", just the opposite.
In fact, their arrogance was only exceeded by their belligerence.
For a typical example, consider SC Congressman Preston Brooks 1856 assault on MA Senator Charles Sumner.

"Brooks was widely cheered across the South, where his attack on Sumner was seen as a legitimate and socially justifiable act, upholding the honor of his family (and the South as a whole) in the face of intolerable insults from a social inferior (and the North as a whole).
South Carolinians sent Brooks dozens of new canes, with one bearing the phrase, 'Good job' "

Of course, outside the Deep South, most Southerners did not own slaves, and many regions with the fewest slaves (i.e., Appalachia) refused to join the slave-holders' secession, Confederacy & war against the United States.

Those Southerners should genuinely be known as "noble and gentle.".

You disagree?

Where some of the noblest & gentlest Southerners lived: