I hope that the Georgia, Florida, Alabama, etc do not suffer. The projections are that they will suffer. The people at highest risk of suffering are the descendants of the enslaved. 
 

Edit to add:

Why the historical context matters

With a pre-Civil War economy built on agriculture and slave labor, the 11 states that make up the historic South attracted low-wage industry for decades, including textiles, millwork and mining. After Reconstruction, most approved new constitutions and laws to disenfranchise and segregate blacks, deepening poverty; the region still has the highest rate in the U.S.

The South’s white majorities have supported Republican presidential candidates for most of the past 40 years, and state parties there recently have marched in lockstep with President Donald Trump. As the president slowly came to grasp the gravity of the crisis, the region’s nine Republican governors mirrored his response.

Only the Democratic governors of Louisiana and North Carolina had issued stay-at-home orders for their entire states until Tuesday, when Republican Greg Abbott of Texas told residents to remain behind closed doors except for essential errands. Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, did so Wednesday after resisting such a move for weeks. So did the governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves. Georgia’s Brian Kemp said he would issue rules Thursday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/the-south-sickest-part-of-a-sick-america-falls-prey-to-virus?srnd=premium

I think the Civil War angle's a distraction. Here's a jingoistic ditty being passed around - maybe it's Southern, may just MAGA, but there are so many holes in the whole thing. Woke a tiger? FFS, Georgia's still asleep at the wheel, and these people think it'll be over in 2 weeks? That's not how Pearl Harbor ended up from what I recall. If this is Greatest Generation talking, it's dementia overtime. If it's Boomer, they missed some detail in those Depression & wartime deprivation stories, and how we lost East Europe & SE Asia for a few generations. History as written by the Disney channel

https://m.facebook.com/ImitGirl2/posts/127750252155619