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The older I get, and the more I read, the more I think the South just might have been the good guys in that war. No doubt about it, though. The US would not be the power it is today if the country had split.

Which may be perceived as a good thing, in the not too distant future...

Bless you. I think when it comes down to it, what I want people to realize is that the concentrated centralized state is our common enemy, and that there were good and bad on both sides of the war.

That's why it's so nauseating to see the Yankees praised as if they were divine saviors. They were men with the same designs and flaws that are in all men.

Reconstruction was a scheme from northerners embittered by Lincoln's assassination, looking for blood, personal gain, etc. and coming to the south to pit blacks against southern whites - to exploit uneducated blacks for political gain.

Not a day goes by that I wish Lincoln had not been assassinated. He would have been a friend of the South, and kept the vindictives at bay.

Few people realize that during Reconstruction, the radical occupiers actually held phony elections and installed black majorities in State legislatures! Just to "show" southern whites. Now think what that did for race relations for the next 100 years. Did you know that it took longer for the yankees to admit all the Southern states & Reps. back into Congress than it did to fight the 4 year war?

IF the south had won, I think we would have gotten back together by now, on constitutional terms. We probably would have done so to fight WWII. Who knows. I wish the Southern states had never seceded.

Which may be perceived as a good thing, in the not too distant future...

If the country mobilizes in the not too distant future, the Constitution would be suspended anyway in the industries judged vital to national security.