All great points. One I think you likely forgot—cuz we’ve all been trying—is the Civil War never really ended. While it ended, Lincoln’s assassination and the revisionist “historians” like Daughters of the Confederacy made sure southern “heritage” would be loud and proud for generations to come. I grew up in the south and remember those …
All great points. One I think you likely forgot—cuz we’ve all been trying—is the Civil War never really ended. While it ended, Lincoln’s assassination and the revisionist “historians” like Daughters of the Confederacy made sure southern “heritage” would be loud and proud for generations to come. I grew up in the south and remember those monuments in town squares and asking my dad “Weren’t they on the wrong side of history?” He’d nod and sigh. Pride, prejudice, and willful ignorance is way more American than apple pie. Sad but true.
All great points. One I think you likely forgot—cuz we’ve all been trying—is the Civil War never really ended. While it ended, Lincoln’s assassination and the revisionist “historians” like Daughters of the Confederacy made sure southern “heritage” would be loud and proud for generations to come. I grew up in the south and remember those monuments in town squares and asking my dad “Weren’t they on the wrong side of history?” He’d nod and sigh. Pride, prejudice, and willful ignorance is way more American than apple pie. Sad but true.