It's amazing the mental blinders you are wearing to avoid the complexities of the War Between the States. None of my posts expressed support for the "peculiar institution" -- far from it. I will always be the first to admit it was the main and perhaps the only flaw in our original Constitution.
But your paint-with-a-broad-bigoted-brush dismissal of the South and its defense of the Federal system is naïve. Besides ending slavery, that war ended the Republic and began the Socialist system we now inherit. There might have been a third way that would have ended slavery and preserved the Union without bloodshed, but for hothead haters on both sides.
However, the victors wrote the history and continue to congratulate themselves on their blundering, wasteful and bloody conquest/occupation/snobbery towards the most patriotic region of our land, which since 1776 has produced more of the military defenders of our Bill of Rights and unique freedoms than any other region.
Imagine the "history" your great-grandchildren will read as the post-Obama version of today's conservative opinion, if contemporary MSM and leftwing blogs are any example.
I guess it all depends on who is avoiding which complexities.