It depends entirely on your point of view as to whether or not the South betrayed the country in the 1860's. I do not AGREE with what they did, and would have supported the Union, but (apart from the slavery issue) they had a valid disagreement with the Federal system (that again, I'm on the other side of) even though I'm from the South.
As far as whether or not Uncle Sam should have any kind of accent, I don't think he should have any kind of accent. That is to say I think he should have a Mid-Western or West Coast type of "non-accent".
They attacked a U.S fort after seceding from the nation and taking government property. They invaded non-rebelling states multiple times, killed American soldiers and probably american civilians while invading Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and the New Mexico territory.
If that isn't treason, then I don't know what is.
Also they left over Slavery: let's not pretend they didn't. Every reason that gets offered instead is connected to slavery.
States rights: to slavery.
Different economic systems: to slavery
A fear of loss of political power: that would affect slavery
The election of a candidate they didn't put on their ballot: because of his views on slavery
To quote Mississippi among other states on the matter's secession declarations
In the momentous step, which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.....
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/mississippi_declaration.asp
My family is from the south and I go to college there: so believe me when I say that the South started the war and did so for slavery. They betrayed the union and thus the idea of the spirit of America having their voice is quite wrong.
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