User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-1600847-20121209142434/@comment-4057437-20121212193739

@ Thedoucheinthenorth - The North was also racist. Many of Lincoln's backers were wealthy northern industralists who saw the freeing of the black slaves as a way to break the power of the Unions. Some of the Largest KKK chapters were in the Midwest, northern states, as well. Some of the most racially polarized areas in the U.S. are in northern states (parts of Boston, for example).