If you’re a liberal, you identify with the Union in the Civil War. You see America as an ever-evolving effort to create a genuine multi-racial liberal democracy, and the Union victory as an essential part of that ongoing struggle.
If you’re a reactionary, you identify with the Confederacy. You look around and conclude that the basics of your culture–God, guns, and guts–are under attack by a vicious group of leftists with numbers and history on their side. You think you are fighting for your very survival, because Fox News says so. The logic of the Confederate cause–to change the political rules in order to guarantee permanent economic and cultural primacy for an historically privileged minority–makes perfect sense to you.
If you’re woke, the Civil War is a short, meaningless interlude between the evils of slavery and the failures of Reconstruction, so you don’t identify with either side. As far as you’re concerned, Lincoln and Davis were both racists, so there is no fundamental difference between the two. All white Americans, regardless of where they came from or their circumstances in life, are oppressors of people of color. It doesn’t matter if you were a slaveowner or a Russian Jew fleeing a pogrom with nothing on your back–you’re all the same, because you received benefits from the racist system and thus have white privilege.
You can count me in the first group, thank you.