How would a surviving Confederacy justify it's continued existence if it abolishes slavery?

If the Confederacy is democratic what would it's people feel about secession in the year 1961? What about in 2011? Winning the war would make it far more difficult to successfully peddle falsehoods like the lost cause, so what happens should public opinion on slavery change?

MLK used the term "promissory note" to refer to the constitution and the declaration of independence, and the civil rights movement was not anti American for the most part. Would the political left be explicitly anti Confederate considering the country was literally founded on a racial caste system? Would the political right endorse the ideology the country was founded on, or would they try skirting the question with the equivalent of holocaust denial on a national scale? Its hard to belive that the reactionary southern aristocracy would allow it to evolve into a normal western conservative party. It's even harder to believe that anybody could be nationalistic or call themselves a "proud condeferate" without endorsing the beliefs of it's founders.

It looks like a surviving Confederacy would doomed to suffer from instability and a perpetual identify crisis. An authoritarian regime seems to be the only thing that could stop the obvious uncomfortable questions from being asked.
 
If the CSA becomes independent, it will be quite a long time before slavery is completely eliminated. A state may eliminate slavery, however that has no effect on another state, and also any slaves from the state with slavery brought in to the state without slavery would remain slaves. When slavery is eliminated completely on a state by state basis, the former slaves would not be "citizens" with voting rights etc. After all, OTL in spite of the amendments to the constitution and other laws, the south kept blacks from voting openly for a long time. Generations of Confederates would have been born, lived, and died in a country with slavery as a universal, many more with some slavery, and even more in a country with a strict "one drop of blood" racial line.

You forget that the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire, had slavery as an integral part of the social system for hundreds of years. While even the Republic was not a democracy as we define it, neither the Republic nor the Empire were what we would call authoritarian in the sense of the OP. Being able to call oneself a "Roman Citizen" was a matter of great pride in the Republic/Empire. I see no reason why the average Confederate would need an authoritarian mind control system to be proud of his/her system. Of course there will be those who are "ashamed" of their system, but to most it will be as normal as air, and also the system that keeps even the lowest/poorest white above the highest black.
 
Even when CSA finally abolishes slavery several decades after Secession War, it would be very racist nation which barely see Blacks as humans or at least not equal. There would be still strict segregation system which micht last to 1990's or even to 2000's. And even after that racist ideology would be very sticked to many white Confederates. And it might be possible if not even plausible that they would adopt very religious and ultra-conservative ideology.
 
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