Literary giant Robert Penn Warren grew up in the pivotal Civil War state of Kentucky. Gramdpa Penn told his grandson that he opposed slavery though he fought for the Confederacy because he could not take up arms against his family and friends. "You go with your people," he explained.

I recall William Faulkner getting into trouble in 1957 when as a writer in residence at the Univ. of Virginia he said that if another war broke out he would stand with Mississippi, his people.

I suppose Robert E. Lee fits in here as well.

How should we feel about this attitude?