I have plenty of ancestry on my mother’s side that dates back to the early (even founding) of many of the colonies. That includes the slave states of the Carolinas and Virginia, and the free states of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine.

When it comes to the War of the Rebellion, I’ll gladly acknowledge that my ancestors who fought on the Union side (of which I know for sure one g-g-grandparent and one g-g-g-grandparent) were on the right side.