LOL! Confederates? Yeah, because racism certainly wasn’t the norm both in America and worldwide at that time. LOLOLOL!!!!
The term has no independent meaning.
The CSA embraced every square inch of every former U.S. state that formed a part of it. Does “confederate” mean every person in that geographic area and thus subject to the jurisdiction of the government of the CSA during the “Wawh of Nawthun’ Aggression”? Meaning, every person whose citizenship snapped from CSA citizenship right back to USA citizenship?
Nobody casually referred to ordinary citizens as Confederates once the war ended, did they?
These joyously wordsmithing people must regard themselves as being absolutely brilliant, such that the rest of us are just not worthy.