Sup Jow Forums. I often find references to confederates in American culture...

Sup Jow Forums. I often find references to confederates in American culture. RU Wikipedia says it was one of the parties in your civil war, that they included only slave-owning States, and virtually nothing else. Can you tell me more about them, their ideas, their symbols, what place they occupied in American history? I mean the confederates 1861-65 years, and not modern followers of their ideas.
I apologize in advance for all possible errors in this and other my posts, the translation was made automatically.

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better send him to

I know Robert E Lee was actually a really nice man and only took his illustrious position because of how loyal he felt to the state of Virginia

pretty good for google translate

Basically
>yankees wanted more control over the south in general
>one of the ways to do this is to get rid of the slaves because the south was agricultural
>south says "if you vote for the candidate that wants to destroy our economy then we'll secede"
>north overwhelmingly votes for Abraham Lincoln
>south votes for oppositio
>north has more people
>south secedes
>4 months pass with north blocking supplies to the south (illegal)
>lincoln still occupying foreign forts in the south
>skirmish
>north attacks the south
>most of the war happens in the south and northern generals often use tactics that include killing and raping civilians and burning fields and towns
>north signs paper that says "slaves are free now in your country" to destabilize Dixie
>it works
>eventually the north wins because the UK never intervened on the south's side like the south was hoping and because the south wasn't as well organized because it was a confederacy
>reconstruction era
>try and slowly change the culture while propping up southern ideals under the yankee banner
>now they're a bogeyman to devalue the south's opinions on things

As for symbolism, the south had several flags associated with it over time, including the Bonnie Blue Flag, Stars and Bars, Rebel flag, Stainless banner, and blood-stained banner.

Their ideas were not terribly far from the north at the time, simply that they believed in more decentralized government whereas the north and Lincoln wanted a more centralized government, but slavery was also a central crux of the south, and basically supported its entire economy.

Other than that there's not much to say. They were good old rebels, that's just what they were.

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I don't know there may be people around here with some more sensible neutral answers. I'm not an expert on murrica myself but I wouldn't be surprised if /his/ and Jow Forums throw the same slanted shit in your face

I guess I didn't make myself clear. I need to see how most Americans perceive confederates rather than historical facts. The historical facts I may find myself.

Holy shit can you take it easy on the nationalism, that's my heritage you're calling cheating stealing rapists

I guess I was wrong
Ah well c'est la vie

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