I don't deny the sentiments of the south, what I do find objectionable is the total denial of what was going in the south that was immoral and evil. Most of the world had at that point outlawed slavery, but the south not only continued it, but found in it a higher moral purpose. Read some of the anti-abolitionist tracts from the time period and it will make your skin crawl. I completely understand the desire to remember your heritage and to look back with nostalgia, even if that nostalgia is based on fiction. We all do that. But, to ignore one of the fundamental causes of the sectionalism that led to the Civil War simply because it is uncomfortable to talk about is wrong. To attempt to rewrite history just so as to pretend that slavery was not an issue, is stupid.
I was talking to stand watie. I was actually agreeing with you vis-a-vis Southern attitudes to arming blacks, free or otherwise.