Reply To: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take?

A VERY unpopular opinion is during the Civil War era which Rabbi sided with who.
Jewish communities being relatively new, (the Jewish population in America jumped from around 15,000 Jews to 175,000 Jews from c.1840-1860), Jews generally sided with where they lived either because they agreed or because they didn’t want to stand out.
But in border places like Baltimore, Jews like Non-Jews could choose which side they were on.
The unpopular opinion is that it’s not surprising that the “Radical Reform Rabbi” was Pro-Lincoln, Pro-Union, Anti-Secession & Pro-Abolition, while the Frum Rabbi (recognized Talmid Chochem, Smicha from Pressburg, many years in Yeshiva, some of his psaks are still in force today) was Anti-Lincoln, Anti-Union, Pro-Secession & Pro keeping Slavery as it had been.
Many Frum are embarrassed by this but looking at today with the Reform generally pushing for liberal values & progressive agendas & the Orthodox not so much is it surprising which Rabbi sided with the Union & which with the Confederacy?