Just for the record, this is NOT the Confederate Flag:

[RainDog]

38. The entire existence of the U.S.

was not predicated on genocide of Native Americans.

Yes. GB outlawed slavery, as did other nations in Western Europe.

The U.S. didn't because of the south.

The reason the U.S. continued slavery for as long as it did is because of the south.

Without the southern support for slavery, it would've ended long before it did.

That's why it's a false equivalence - the arguments of the northern states, and the western states, as the U.S. took territory, indicates that the U.S. had to walk a tightrope with southern genocidal assholes.

The south kept slavery alive.

The south comprised the subset of this population with treasonous bastards who would rather have the "right" to beat someone to death for his personal profit, or to rape someone he perceived as his personal property, because it made a few rich.

The poor whites who fought for the south are no different than the poor whites who vote for Republicans now, and their motivations are, sickeningly, too similar.