After talking to many of the locals here, the CW is not forgotten. Or I'd say, the punitiveness of the federal government afterward. Winning seemed (to me) to give the feds all the power and the states very little.
We have a flag pole at our new house, and a friend asked me what flag we will be putting up. Having just escaped Mexifornia, I was thinking not one from another country, no way! But she was thinking I'd put up a ‘southern’ one, as she put it. A confederate flag, I found out after questioning because she could have mean the Tn state flag. She's 76 and a little spitfire.
Feelings here are running hot, I think, under the politeness of southern charm.
The first thing you need to get rid of is the Lincoln mythology indoctrination. In reality Lincoln is nothing like the mythical God he has been made into.