An outsiders perspective: this is a 150+ year issue that should’ve been dead and buried since regardless of its outcome, but has been dug up constantly to divide the people, as it makes a good campaign issue. Left alone, I bet you the civil war result would’ve been a minor thing after a generation.

Bruh, the ‘reconciliationist’ position dominated from roughly 1880-1960. You wanna guess what section of US society suffered the most under the ‘dead and buried’ position of the US Civil War?