"Yes, you are right.
In Richmond, they rioted over bread." Starving people are likely to riot anywhere. That has nothing to do with whether or not they support some war effort by the government of their region!
What was worth noting in the 1863 NYC "draft riots" that left over 1,100 dead in a week of urban warfare against their own national government in one city was that the people involved weren't desperate for food - or any other basic necessity of life. They just rioted against their own national government because they saw no personal stake in its war worth even their own certain long-term inconvenience - let alone the possible loss of their lives.
The lesson to be learned from the 1863 NYC "draft riots" is that even the working poor of the North cannot be depended on for compliant recruits, much less your spoiled Monicas, willing to fight your grandees' war to attempt to hold us by force if you decide to try that when we declare a Czech-style "velvet divorce" - which is how it will happen in the "second half."
In contrast, few Confederate soldiers who fought had slaves (as only a small percentage of Southerners could afford them!); they were willingly fighting solely for freedom for their country - in the first "national liberation movement" to fight against Washington's imperialism, long before hippies heard that phrase and long before Ho Chi Minh was born!
And for those who think that Southern troops were fighting for slavery rather than for freedom for their nation, I remind you that - with current federal tax levels - "slavery" has come to apply to 100% of the U.S. citizen population. Current combined federal taxes alone are far higher than what prompted the colonists to rebel against the Brits.
Like I said before, it's now halftime and your side is ahead. See you at the end of the game!
