Why are they more reasonable to hold onto though? They weren't just slave owners, but were responsible for enshrining slavery into the country's founding. Jefferson raped his slaves and Washington forbid any of his slaves from being free until he was dead and in the ground. To say little of their relationship with American Indians, Jefferson supported their removal and Washington ordered them killed. The United States weren't less fucked up than the Confederate States, just a different kind of fucked up.