That regardless of the outcome of the War for Southern Independence; it rendered the concept of our government, founded on consent of the governed, illegitimate.

And instead the fall of the South made us all slaves

Y’all think of this, every time you see a Southerner waving an American flag and talking about “freedom” and “liberty” he is a demoralized, defeated person who has encompassed the Stockholm syndrome like schizophrenia of liking the conquering Government his ancestors once fought and died to be free from.