i honestly don't know what southerners believed in. some of my ancestors were immigrants and conscripted to fight for the south (germans). some were of virginia stock. the south never really got survive in peace time and i don't think many southerners believed in much of anything at all. frankly i don't know much about how their government worked or what it would have looked like. i picture it as more of an agrarian society that wanted to be a republic like the united states but probably would have looked a bit more feudal with lords ruling massive plantations and the poor yeoman southern substance farmer never aspiring to be much other than farmer.
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