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They won't.
Many of them are stupid. Many are poorly informed.
But many of them are operating with stupid axioms. They would rather suffer and die personally if it meant those people got it worse.
If you offered free health care, guns, and hamburgers to everyone but it meant that black people got it too, a lot of Americans would say no
The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.
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I come from the south, I know my heritage has a confederate officer in it.
John Brown did nothing wrong.
Amen. Instead they were coddled, allowed to put up statues (of their loss lmao), and left to fester.
If anyone out there has any good recommendations for books about what happened after the war and why the losers just got to walk off the field, I’d appreciate ‘em!
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/08/02/book-review-white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-by-nancy-isenberg/
Long story short the Union was worried splitting the country or hamstringing the southern economy would weaken the US and make it vulnerable to other world powers (we weren't one yet). Much like Ukraine now, we were a former colony fighting a brutal war with the newest tech (which later revolutionized warfare eg trench warfare a la Longstreet) and there were military observers, advisers, and adventurers from many other countries here watching everything go down. Also they were sniffing around for weakness.
It's not about the confederacy itself but look up the book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth" to learn how a relatively unimportant location in Texas has become an international symbol of defiance and American spirit... when it was a bunch of slave owners invading Mexico, ignoring the laws, then stealing the land.
The book covers the history of Alamo, and the battle of the Alamo is only in the first quarter, it goes all the way to modern era. It helps show how that group twists myths to their advantage.
The people in charge of surrendering didn't want to die, and wanted to continue to live cushy lives. Most of the Union didn't want to march all the way to the gulf killing every confederate on the way there. Even today, a good chunk of the south holds resentment for losing the war as badly as they did. When faced between allowing some shit bags to get off with a slap on the wrist, or murdering half the country and drawing out the war, the choice was pretty obvious.
In the future, that last statement may finally come true.