I was born and raised in the deep South and I am proud of my region of this great nation

[Abu Pepe]

16. Yes. But the leaders of the Confederacy, below Davis and the cabinet

not only faced no justice for their treason , they went back to running the place and introducing Jim Crow. Those elites of the South, the backbone of the rebellion, the military officers who betrayed their oaths to the United States should have at least been barred like felons from political participation, and in many cases hung like the traitors they were. The slaveholding aristocracy should have been stripped not only of there hostages but of all their property.

The South would be a much more equal society today. And it wouldn't have the simultaneous chip on it's shoulder and sense of entitlement.