“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their independence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery…and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.” Woodrow Wilson, “A History of The American People”, page 231
They have stigmatized generations of Southerners with their lie, killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, for what? For greedy politicians, bankers and big business and it still goes on today.
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