Councilman removes flags from confederate soldiers graves?

Maybe not. And most Union soldiers were racist too, by the way. The Union went to war to preserve the Constitution, not to end slavery.

Nevertheless, the South's leaders had persuaded themselves that Lincoln's elections spelled the end of slavery if they remained under the Constitution, and the end of slavery would mean the end of the "southern way of life" as they knew it. The whole economy was driven by slave-picked cotton, so you depended on slavery even if you didn't own slaves personally, and would fight to preserve this "way of life." And all white southerners dreaded what might happen if a third of the population that had been exploited and brutalized for centuries suddenly became free and empowered.

There's a lot of misinformation on this subject driven by modern political agendas, but if you actually do historical research in the political speeches, sermons, and newspapers of the South at the time there is no honest way to deny it. A former pastor of mine believed that the South had seceded over "states' rights" rather than slavery when he began researching his history PhD dissertation; after a few weeks in the archives he realized there was no way that was true.

Most people in the Antebellum South, and therefore most Confederate soldiers, were not slaveholders but subsistence farmers, merchants, trafesmen, hunter-trappers, and the like. They fought for the same reasons every soldier fights -- to defend home and family against a percieved threat from without. Moreover, until quite late in the war they were almost to a man volunteers, while the supposedly oh, very moral northern forces were in large part made up of conscripts and foreign mercenaries.

They were, "racist" only in that they shared the prevailing social attitudes of thier time.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.