Doing bad things is ok if it results in good things.

I don't want to call you a liar, but I doubt you can point to one respectable source that's showing support for this piece of garbage and his way of thinking that would suggest the mainstream southerner believes any of his nonsense.

Bullshit. I'm sure some lunatics applauded the Boston bombers too. But nobody tried to present them as representatives of their respective populations.

They were totally cool with Maryland owning slaves though.

Ends justify the means. Got it.

From KateH, who claimed that a majority of southerners owned slaves based on her figure of 40% which isn't in fact, a majority.

I've lived in the south my entire life and I've never heard anyone say they wished the institution of slavery would come back. All kinds of other racist bullshit everyone says everywhere else, sure, but nobody, who isn't completely on the margin of society, is sitting around wishing they had slaves. That's idiotic.

Yes, people who try to use an absolute tragedy to further their political goals and denigrate an entire region of people who have showed nothing but disdain for the actions of the terrible person who committed said tragedy are horrible people.

By and large the Northern opposition to slavery was in no way based on principle either.

That's true for nearly every society that has ever existed on this planet. So why is the south the only one who gets called out for it?

Why not? Did they not wish to repress/suppress/destroy the southerner, and force them to change their culture (even if it we consider it an immoral one)? How is that different than what happened to the Native Americans or Mayans?

Sure, 1860's era census information is totally reliable.

I'm not defending racists.

Actually, the original flag at the SC statehouse was put up to protest the 1960's era Civil Rights movement, which is completely racist as hell, but I just like to point out to Yankees that they're horrible people too when they get all uppity about the Civil War.

Both of those are examples of what would be considered war crimes / possibly genocidal today.

They didn't want to ban anything. They just didn't want it expanded to the newly formed states in the west, thus giving them more power in Congress. Slavery wasn't banned in the North, especially the border states, until after the Civil War was over, technically after it was banned in the South.

Gone with the Wind was a documentary, and the events happened in real time.

I totally agree with that. However there's a gigantic monument in Washington D.C. for guy who once said:

Yeah that's fine, but I just like to point out the hypocrisy of calling for removing all visible reminders of the Confederacy because of their evils while celebrating the likes of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman, who did incredibly awful things themselves.

The vast majority of southerners did not own slaves. The Northern states, as well as most of Europe, didn't seem to have a problem benefiting economically from slavery.