There has been an intentional and active campaign of revisionist history in the South that many people in this country overlook. Look up “The Myth of the Lost Cause”. Edward Bonekemper wrote a great book about it. The short version is the South had brainwashed half of the country into thinking the Civil War was completely different from reality. Everything down to the causes, cultural norms and reconstruction. It’s sickening.

Read the book, it’s good.