Alas, the Union won the Civil qwar, but the Confederacy won the peace, in terms of prettying up the Confederate cause as a noble, chivilrous cause, not about slavery but about “states rights,” that is, the right to hold other human beings as livestock. The glorified nostalga about the CONfederacy should be, like the movie title says, Gone with The Wind.

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