Most whites voted for Obama's opponents. Quit bandying about that nonsense.

The rest of your post is simplistic and resorts to half-truths.

<<{James McPherson] repeats his contention that Confederate soldiers acted largely out of the conviction that they were defending rights and liberty, and that Union soldiers believed that self-government everywhere -- and their own freedom in particular -- depended upon upholding the Republic against division and anarchy....

In the South, the cause candidly included the defense of slavery and white supremacy. In the North, it increasingly encompassed emancipation, even among those who at first rejected Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.>>

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/23/books/courage-of-their-convictions.html?auth=login-email

<<If you don't feel privileged to be here, this country is too good for you.>> Easy for the privileged to say.