I’m from Boston, and I can tell you I support the view that Civil War should have been avoided and the South should have been able to secede. My guess is that after a few short years, everyone would have realized it was a wake up call and figured it would have been best to keep our differences within our own states and merge back together for the good of the nation as a whole. So don’t assume everyone in the northeast is an elitist or refuses to see things logically :)