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re: CNN is at it again
Posted on 12/29/16 at 7:59 am to bencoleman
Posted on 12/29/16 at 7:59 am to bencoleman
The reason I named these 2 books is that they were the most extensively researched I'd read on the topic, using mainly primary Southern sources. The Lost Cause movement is as historically accepted as something can be. In fact, the tenets of the movement still pervade Southern culture. Wilson argues that it was almost a religious movement. There were large meetings with hymns (like Dixie), saints (Stonewall Jackson, Robert E Lee, etc.), holy days/holidays (Confederate Memorial Day) and near worship of religious relics (items like Jefferson Davis' daughter's Bible were displayed and treated with utmost reverence, even causing grown women to break down and cry upon viewing it). It's fascinating and it almost reached Great Awakening type religious fervor.
Posted on 12/29/16 at 9:01 am to AUveritas
I'm not doubting that people felt that way. I'm saying that a northerner looking at such and not understanding southern culture could get the wrong impression. I was born and raised in the sixties and seventies. Believe it or not the wounds were still deep and painful. My grandmother was born in 1910, my grandfather was born in 1900 and my great grandmother died around that time at a 103. I sat and listened to them talk. They were no nonsense country people who could spot bullshite a mile away. I heard things from them that isn't in any history books. The idea that the South drove this false narrative goes against everything I've ever learned about history. The victor writes the history books and controls the narrative. This instance is no different. The north has driven the narrative down here for my lifetime. I also love the part about sympathetic northerners eager for reconciliation allowed this to go on. Those compassionate northerners had no problem visiting reconstruction on their southern neighbors. No I don't buy it. It's just as much a fantasy as Trump being elected by a white supremacist movement.
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