That it's republicans trying to distract and control the narrative once again

It's not really much of an option anyway. The actual civil war was fought along a genuine difference - industrial wage-labor in the north vs. the south's (primarily agrarian) owning people as property. The Culture Game may make it seem like there's a huge divide, but compared against the history it is peanuts (especially if you ignore what people think and look only at what they do).