Hated today, too, by all the Confederate supporters around here.
Confederate supporters are democrat supporters. The Civil War was started and wholly owned by the democrat party. Funny how like now, they convinced all of those poor dirt farmers who owned no slaves and in fact remained poor because slavery made their farming efforts impossible to get ahead. They convinced them to fight and die to defend their rights to own and profit from slaves and their plantations. They had no intention of sharing any of the benefits of slavery with the rest of the population. Like today, a few benefit from slaves/illegals while the rest are shut out of jobs, opportunities to move up. I don’t think they will get the level of support today that they received back then. Some southerners still haven’t learned that they were freed as much as the slaves were.
Who, if you were to somehow drop them back into 1861 would be screaming their heads off to get the hell out of there. Confederates. Losers then, losers now.
Lincoln was a blood thirsty tyrant that hated states rights and would do anything to “preserve” the union, even killing every southerner in the process. Other than that, I have no problem with him.