The civil war was a bit more complicated than that.
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The Union won. Get over it.
Indeed. And yet "the union" in the 1950's voted to honor confederate soldiers by giving them the same benefits as Union soldiers, including the right to be buried in national cemeteries.
How does it feel to know that people from the 1950's were more tolerant than yourself? You are the exact reason the term "regressive" was coined.