@cjd the only novel and interesting information provided is "non-slaveholders in the south probably didn't want to secede" but that doesn't mean they didn't agree with keeping slavery as the status quo. So it's completely meaningless.

Who cares that the people in the south who didn't have power didn't want what happened to happen?

There is not and never has been a social movement of people in the American south who identify with this forgotten historical group and want us to know that they didn't like the Confederacy either.

It's an interesting footnote in history, but has no material impact on anything we already know. The people maligned are those who had the power to start the war -- and everyone who supported or joined them. Those people who didn't want to secede could have en-masse fled to the north. But they didn't, did they?