States rights was a bullshit excuse they came up with after the war when the blacks didn't murder them all in their sleep like they were afraid they would, and then they ended up looking even stupider than they already did.
They were ALL bad people. The ones who didn't own slaves personally still benefited from the institution and, more importantly, didn't want to compete with blacks for those lower-level jobs.
Also, they didn't want those black people ******* their sisters. That was their job!
We should have been more concerned with Justice than reconciliation. We are still dealing with our losing the peace after winning the war.
Yup, here we go again, trying to justify the unjustifiable.
Actually, Germany had better reasons to go to war in 1939 than the South did in 1861. Lincoln wasn't even going to ban slavery, just not let any new slave states in the Union.