Just to straighten something out, the idea of "State's Rights" also included the idea of secession and state sovereignty (much of the stuff that Thomas Jefferson and John Calhoun talked about). The CSA in terms of race is no more racist than it's Northern counterpart. You can't apply modern views to the people of 150 years ago.
Also, Cajuns are decended from the French, they speak their own variant of French, what is keeping them from being seen as white? The only difference they have from the rest of the CSA is the cultural legacy (French Canadian), and not to mention Cajuns served in CS armies during it's war of independence.
The North, last time I checked, didn't make racially specific massacres a tool of policy. Where it did such things the entire USA before, during, and after the war saw no issues with it (namely Native Americans). The CSA, of course, was also based on slavery in a very racially specific form. Northern racism of the time was more nuanced in that whites were treated unequally, blacks were universally discriminated against and the only good Indians, to quote Lil' Phil, were dead Indians (which the South also agreed with).
It's surprising how many people here seem to think the Confederates are Nazis. I mean, isn't that going a bit far? They were in the wrong, sure, and they were quite racist, but it's not like they were out to oppress/enslave anyone who wasn't an upper-class male WASP or something.
The whole "terminate USCT with extreme prejudice" order pretty much does anticipate the Commissar Order. And it was carried out in the Trans-Mississippi and in Virginia, as well as causing the parole cartel to break down over treating black soldiers as soldiers equal to white soldiers. Forrest simply carried out the most notorious massacre of the war, Lee's army carried out the largest.
How about the Creole? Also what exactly is the difference between Creole and Cajun?
Creoles were descendants of Afro-Spanish culture. Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians expelled during the 7 Years' War. As someone who lives in Cajun Country I damn well oughta know this one.
