The history and pride of the South needs no help in being vilified. Think of Fort Pillow, of Plymouth North Carolina, Andersonville GA. The South’s only defined and cohesive tradition was the institution of slavery. You started a war to preserve it. You lost that war.
Oh, the South had another "defined and cohesive tradition", which was beating the @ss of Northern military formations which outnumbered them, and which had massively better supply capabilities.