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