Wrong but Romantic; Right but Repulsive. This is the way we were taught, in the border state of Missouri, to view the respectively Southern and Northern sides in the Civil War. Back before we realized that the conflict had more to do with the future of African-Americans in this nation.We were then taught that the one side was all about mansions in the moonlight, chivalry, culture and good manners, while the other was all about grimy industrial towns and greedy capitalists flogging ever-growing profits out of depraved and starving immigrants.The Northern side happened, we were told, to be historically correct, but this was rather regrettable, wasn‘t it? I mean, wouldn’t you prefer those magnolias in the moonlight to the 12-hour working day, assuming, of course, that your skin was the proper color?