Why are so many Trump supporters attracted to the JFKA?

[Lance Payette]

   The above displays a total lack of historical knowledge. The Southern States WITHDREW from the "UNITED" States. How could anyone living inside these same states then vote in the 1864 POTUS Election? Laughable.
   TECHNICALLY, this same issue is what the Civil War was fought over. Whether a state could just withdraw from the UNITED States. Abe Lincoln was on record as being OK with the Civil War ending with slavery still being intact.
   

Right, they're just dummies who probably don't even think One Glove Cop is an Haygood Imposter. 

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Off the topic, but I wonder how many people know that the Great Emancipator's view was not the freeing of the slaves and their integration into American society? It was the freeing of the slaves and sending them back to Africa or elsewhere ASAP because Blacks would simply never mesh with a white society. This was in fact the prevailing view, termed "colonization," within the anti-slavery movement.

Weirdly, as I happen to know from recent reading, the Mormons of Utah - who viewed Blacks as a cursed people carrying the Mark of Cain - overwhelmingly voted to extend them full civil rights in the Utah Territory before the Civil War.