There was nothing “conservative” about the confederacy.
I know, you're a white, guilt affected liberal bedwetter, right.
Let me preempt your rant about slavery.
It would have died on its own due the to weight of its inherent cost to slave owners - probably before the beginning of the 20th century. There was no need to kill 650,000 Americans over it.
The Civil War outcome has given us the current federal government.
“There was nothing “conservative” about the confederacy.”
Oh, it was extremely conservative in the opinion of two of Lincoln’s fans in London, journalists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The South represented the forces of reaction against the progressive agenda of the Radical Republicans.
But I can see how you would prefer that it were otherwise.