[Grand Old Partisan]

The election of 1860 took place before the Confederacy was created. During the war, the Confederates shifted completely over to the Democratic Party. The eleven rebel states sent Representatives and Senators to the U.S. Congress in late 1865 -- everyone one of them, such as former Whig Alexander Stephens, was a Democrat.

I don't hate the South, not even the killers of 400,000 U.S. troops in the 1860s. The 200,000 southern blacks and 100,000 southern whites were southerners too.

[Grand Old Partisan]

...the 200,000 southern blacks and 100,000 southern whites who enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Civil War...