And I'm saying, hyperbole aside, the South suffered a great deal less than the losing side of any other rebellion I'm aware of. During the period before and during the Southern rebellion, a rebellion had been going on in China which killed 25 million and left whole sections of the country deserted wastelands. The French Revolution was a bloodbath, as was the English Civil War. What happened to the south was nothing by comparison.
Oh please, you can’t compare the American character to the Chinese, for God’s sake. Not in its entire history. Nowhere did I compare the North’s behavior after the war to any of the examples you just gave. Oliver Cromwell? Robespierre?
But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have done better and been smarter.