User blog comment:ChazmanianDevil/A Response and Alternate Viewpoint on the Nature and Morality of the Confederacy/@comment-27097330-20170521181340/@comment-27097330-20170521182438

That's the point of the earlier section questioning the statement itself. Again, it's so ambiguous it's impossible to answer. Personally I feel that the emphasis the cultural war had prior to the civil war if often underestimated.