“Hey man I’m not saying I want slavery. I’m just arguing for ‘states rights’…” despite the text of the confederate constitution forbidding a state from rejecting slavery and shit…

And it all still boiled down to racism, to some degree:
“Ain’t no (n-word)-lover gonna tell me what to do!”

The only good confederate soldier was Samuel Clemens and he defected as soon as he realized that’s all the war was about