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CSA states' declarations of secession, if I remember correctly, used the word "slaveholding" rather often to characterize CSA's members.
There are some other differences in direction, so back then it really was to some extent about states' rights, just as important as slavery or maybe a bit less. Which doesn't change the point.
(Also - I was a stupid kid at some point with sympathies to confederates. Eh.)
Like conservatives today, most of the men who fought and died for the Confederate states, were not a part of the ruling class they supported. They heard what they wanted to hear. They were convinced that the federal government was trying to take away their rights. They gave their own lives so a few rich men might continue to live by rich fucker rules. Men who owned other men. Men who didn't give a damn about the common folk they sent to fight. It's only ever been about the rights of the Few, the landowning slavers.
Mostly yes, but let's just say I think I understand Cherokee leaders which supported the Confederacy.
That's the reality of the world we live in. It's the whole point of George Orwell's "animal farm." The animals revolt and take over the farm for themselves, believing they can live in a more just world by equally dividing up the spoils and rights to everything among themselves. In the end though, one group of pigs believe they deserve a bigger slice of the pie than anyone else and commit violence to make sure they get it. It's inevitable. The few upper earners of our nation will always dominate and always get their way. There is no solution to it. That's life. And it always will be.