This has been chewed on endlessly on FR but I am always obliged to post once on such foolish threads in the hope someone will actually do some research and change their mind.
The South will rise again, in principle, it is my hope that it is not too late.
I'll I agree with that to a point, if it is recognized that the cowardly men behind the rebellion, who exempted their own class from military service, set up the Confederacy for the benefit of the institution of slavery. If the despised southern mud sills could be convinced that it was really states' rights that they were fighting for, then so much the better.
But an 1860s man in Winton County Alabama had the Confederacy (Slavery Inc.) figured out well:
"All tha want is to git you...to fight for their infernal Negroes and after you do their fightin' you may kiss their hind parts for o tha care." [