`Nuetral Point of View? Are you kidding?==  :1. Alexander Stephens didn't speak for the Confederacy at large. :2. None of the causes of the war listed explains why the common southern man risked it all for the confederacy. :3. White Supremacy was far from being a Southern trait. It was world-wide, at the time. These ``historians`` are ill-informed at best, biased at worst. :4. There is little in the historical record with which one can glorify Lincoln...I don't know why people still insist on doing it. :5 Demonizing the South is not only unjust, it's intellectually dishonest. The North was no better....and in many areas of race relations, quite worse...and still are. :6 Where are historians such as Charles Beard? Where are the foreign accounts of the causes, which are the only ones that can be considered objective?    ==`