> faggy intellectual elites from the Northeast. Northeast? Only by proxy, for the middle east. Of course, the CSA was hamstrung in its efforts because it had middle-easterners high in the Davis Administration, the most famous of which was (((Judah P. Benjamin))), who decided "Deo Vindice" wasn't for him and snuck off to live it up in England when the chips were down, in no small part due to his own doing, in the CSA. The vast majority of slaveowners were Jews. Abolition was a Jewish movement. The Abolitionists sold the Northern industrialists on Abolition with the pitch that if we were to free the slaves then they would have a dirt cheap labor force as, to paraphrase, Whites are expensive but freed niggers are so dumb they'll work for peanuts.