Professor
The Civil War was not a victory of democracy over aristocracy.
Aristocracy had been repudiated by the rogue American colonists ab initio, when these ungrateful darlings claimed that King George III had enslaved them, not their negroes, and not their white indentured servants, which were legion over here!.
The Civil War marked the advent of the first nation state of terror, not of democracy, as even as eminent a limited thinker as Bobbitt acknowledged, in The Shield of Achilles.
You must try to smell the coffee, some day.
All the best
