Proud of that, aren't you.
Also you should remember that it took four years to defeat the southern armies. They had virtually no manufacturing capacity as opposed to the industrialized North. They had no navy and the coastline was blockaded for the majority of the war thus limiting trade and suppressing the economy. And yet they fought brilliantly for the most part and for the first three years repeatedly engaged and then defeated vastly superior Union armies.
Yep, the traitors from the south took on vastly superior forces from the north, and to no surprise, they lost. Absolutely Brilliant.
I can only hope in my lifetime that North and South will dance once more.
You are clueless and delusional. There's a small contingent of morons just like you out there. Thankfully, y'all are just harmless kooks. Sane people just snicker at you rebel-flag-waving, Souths-gonna-do-it-again nutbars.
As always instead of presenting an objective argument your kind always resort to ad hominem attacks. The Southern states had an absolute political right to secede under the U.S. constitution. This was discussed in great length by all of the founders. When Dishonest Abe and the rest of his cabinet provoked an attack they were obliged quite handily by the secessionists. As a result of a Union victory you and the rest of America were deprived of our constitutional republic paving the way for the socialist democracy we now live in.
I am reminded of a story told by Texas Senator Wigfall in 1861:
That the people of the North shall consider themselves as more blessed than we, more civilized, and happier, is not a matter at which we would complain at all, if they would only content themselves with believing that to be the fact; but when they come and attempt to propagandize, and insist that we shall be as perfect as they imagine themselves to be, then it is that their good opinion of themselves becomes offensive to us.
Let my neighbor believe that his wife is an angel and his children cherubs, I care not, though I may know he is mistaken; but when he comes impertinently poking his nose into my door every morning, and telling me that my wife is a shrew and my children brats, then the neighborhood becomes uncomfortable, and if I cannot remove him, I will remove myself; and if he says to me, "you shall not move, but you shall stay here, and you shall, day after day, hear the demerits of your wife and children discussed," then I begin to feel a little restive, and possibly might assert that great original right of pursuing whatever may conduce to my happiness, though it might be kicking him out of my door.
If New England would only be content with the blessings which she imagines she has, we would not disturb her in her happiness.
Bless you.