If you look closely at the history of the southern states you will see that they were closer in practice to the ideals of the founding fathers. The warrior tradition was strongest in the south, that's something to be proud of. Agriculture was king in line with the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, his entire reasoning behind the illegal Louisiana Purchase was to ensure the future of the young nation would be agrarian and not industrialised like Europe had become. Jefferson viewed industrialisation as a great evil. The very thing the North had become. Being proud of being outnumbered and outgunned from the outset but being able to kick the North's ass for four years before the war of attrition under the 'brilliant' guidance of Grant broke the back of the Confederacy. Damn yankee. Then putting up with years of being economically raped by the carpetbagger northern scum that came down to opportunistically prey on the war ravaged south.
There is pride in hardship that yer young years could not begin to comprehend.
