Is the south's view of Lincoln that bad?
If some pieces of literate is to be believed the south saw Lincoln as a martyr whose death allowed the evils of radical reconstruction to be unleashed.
Is that what they teach you up north? Oh I'll agree he would've been easier on the south than Johnson, but beyond that, I've always failed to see why he was such a saint. A great man who had his vision of how the US should be and rammed it through to be certain, but if he really wanted to avoid the civil war he would've treated with Davis' delegates before calling up the army and condemning nearly a million young men to death.
During the Nullification Crisis, even Andrew Jackson negotiated with South Carolina rather than calling in the troops.
But on the subject of Lincoln... look at how the South voted in the elections after the Civil War... even when the south was predominantly right-winged they went Democrat well into the 50's every time simply because they didn't want to be affiliated with Lincoln's party.