Interesting theory.
Ah, tourjours, mon Ditto, toujours le spin! Whether you like to acknowledge it or not, the followers of Calhoun were the intellectual heirs of James Madison, if not Jefferson himself; and the common people who populated the Confederate Army were Jacksonian Democrats. And their defeat was a defeat for the vision of the Founders, that turned their nation of free men into a cage full of clock-punchers. That, dear Ditto, is what I'm saying.
On a purely informal and discussive basis, of course.