My UT history professor described the average northern as someone who "welcomed a market economy but wanted to restrain the individualism and disorder it created by enforcing cultural and moral values derived from Puritan tradition."
He then described the average southerner as "free thinkers, backwoods farmers, and those of all classes... one thing these groups had in common was a desire to be left alone, free of restrictions on their freedom to think and behave as they liked."
One group established a "government: of the people, by the people, for the people." One group made sure that government "perished from the earth," after an invasion.
Both groups condoned the terrible act of slavery. The leader of one group wanted to ship all African Americans out of America to Liberia.
Neither the north nor the south were Nazis. I just find it interesting that of the two the South is the one that is accused of being Nazis.
On a side note, I am a proud Mississippi Choctaw American Indian. The NCAA tried to make Mississippi College change its mascot from the Choctaw. After much protest from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi College was allowed to retain its Choctaw mascot. I never understand the campaign to remove American Indians as mascots. First let me say that just because one American Indian or American Indian Tribe wants to remove an American Indian mascot DOESN'T MEAN WE ALL FEEL THE SAME WAY. I have also never understood how someone with NO American Indian connection can be offended by an American Indian mascot. Last I would like to say my American Indian great great grandmother married my great great grandfather a white confederate soldier (a confederate soldier taking part in an interracial marriage
). My full-blooded Choctaw great great great grandfather fought for the confederacy and I don't appreciate it when people call my American Indian great great grandfather a Nazi.
Fun Fact: A jewish man, Judah P. Benjamin, served as confederate secretary of state, secretary of war and attorney general.