> It fought a devastating war to preserve slavery, and this is something it's still proud of to this day. You're committing a common logical fallacy which is

> It fought a devastating war to preserve slavery, and this is something it's still proud of to this day. You're committing a common logical fallacy which is attributing an act to a group and referring to it as a singular entity. You can just as accurately say that "The United States promoted slavery." or "Europe committed the Holocaust." You know black people are Southerners too and by saying "the South" to uniformly refer to only white slave owners and racists, you implicitly eradicate their lives and contributions to southern culture. > They have violent protests to preserve statues of Confederate (rebel) leaders in public spaces. "They" — people who live in the South — also conducted the Montgomery bus boycott and marched to Montgomery. Jesus, dude, are you OK? No one should be so hateful of such a large body of people.