re: Do you feel race relations would be better if CSA still existed.

Obviously, slavery in the south would have lasted longer if the CSA still existed. How long it would have existed is hard to know. The ease of communication at the turn of the century compared to previous times really exposed evils in the world that previously could get swept under the rug, so I don't think it would have lasted a lot longer, as in I don't think it makes it into the 1900's. So in that sense, it would have delayed relations somewhat. Who knows exactly how long....20, 30, 40 years???

Now if the CSA existed along side the Union and they both shut off slavery at the exact same time, then I don't think it changes a thing. Although slavery was a huge part of the CW, it's not like the North was full of SJW's. It was much easier for them to call slavery a bad thing since it wasn't tied to their economy as tightly. But that doesn't mean they were all hugs and kisses to African Americans. They just didn't have to deal with the integration as much, that's one reason they didn't quite have the issues the south had. I think widespread transportation of information (images/reports/video of injustices) forces CSA to make integration reform in nearly the same way in order to keep it's economy in shape due to world political influence.

I truly hate the false narrative that Lincoln and the North freed the slaves. I do feel it was the cause of the war, but I don't think that Lincoln should quite be praised the way he is. We are tearing down statues where men publicly stated they were against slavery, but were tied to their state, so they fought for that state's cause. Yet we praise Lincoln for freeing slaves, when he didn't free all slaves with the Emancipation Proclimation. Only those in the CSA and it was done not for justice, but to hurt the South politically. He did not abolish it in Union states....so did he really care about slaves the way history makes it seem? And his stance on freed African Americans was atrocious. He thought they were less than whites and should be shipped off to their own colony. Yet we aren't thinking of changing school names or tearing down the Lincoln monument.