Postwar Confederate West Point

[Saphroneth]

The idea of the South disintegrating because the states making it up have differences is frankly silly, because if they'd had that set of differences then they'd have been disintegrating away from the US anyway. Instead it's a case of "the thing they have in common is not wanting to be part of the North" (in this case because of slavery, chiefly).

National identities can coalesce quite quickly, especially under external threat, which is in fact how the US identity actually formed in the first place.