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Clint Collide šŸŒˆāœŒļø's avatar

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 ā€œhistoriansā€ like Daughters of the Confederacy made sure southern ā€œheritageā€ 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 ā€œWeren’t they on the wrong side of history?ā€ He’d nod and sigh. Pride, prejudice, and willful ignorance is way more American than apple pie. Sad but true.

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