I liked Buster Keaton's silent film "The General", and that features the civil war from a confed side; they seemed pretty cool.
An interesting point is that historically, the south were very good goyim- jews were valued in their society because they filled gaps (financial, goods sales; and let's not forget slave ship owners) whereas in the north the jews were competitors to the WASP businesses.
The south was a bit of a multiculti land - white majority with various minorities, and the different groups having different skills, to fill different societal roles and niches. Of course that implies inequality/castes though, so in modern times everyone better kvetch about it. I've read the diaries of some of the slaves from back then though, and they seemed pretty cheerful, they liked the bosses family, when they were free well they didn't really know what to do, they often decided to stay living there and buy a little plot of land off the master to grow some crops and vegetables.
Why not defend the indefensible for the sake of discussion- on slavery, a lot of people's main gripe with it is because of the masters who mistreated slaves back then. From what I understand though, mistreatment of slaves was not standard practice, and only ever with the labourers- house-slaves were especially looked after. But what's the difference between that and the various workplace abuses committed against people today? Off the top of my head there's the leatherworkers in bangladesh getting cancer at 30 from chemical exposure, switchboards in China filled with asbestos, and… cotton pickers in Uzbekistan (gee this seems mighty familiar..). People kvetch about the past but by sure they're lucky to bury their heads in the sand about today's shitty things, or we'd be invading all the turdworld shitholes to better their living conditions. I don't really see how a foxconn worker today is any more free than a slave labourer back then.
I just reckon how things were back then, you had all these families living together, looking after each other, people made it work, and they were generally pretty happy, making an honest living out of hard work. Now we got machines to do the objectively shitty labour jobs (cotton picking), well there's still a need for housework, maids, nannies- I reckon maybe people having houseworkers and some family live under their wing, is a good way to do things.