For those unaware, the lost cause myth was coined in 1866 by Edward A. Pollard and essentially reinvented the American civil war to be about state rights over its actual intended cause being slavery. It was a romanticisation of the war which saw state loving confederates fight for their righteous land over the powerful and superior Union, it also portrayed the south as a nice idyllic land with kind slave owners and loyal content slaves happy to work the lands for their benevolent owners. It was a massive attempt at historical revisionism particularly by the united daughters of the confederacy who memorialised confederate soldiers and propagated the myth into education.
InsideHousing4965 on
I mean, it kinda highlighted a major issue with the USA, in my opinion… no state is free to leave and declare independence without an all-out war breaking out.
Not saying this in favour of the South, slavery had to go, even though if it didn’t, and it just became something else (USA penal system).
But yeah, I do believe that every single nation should have the right to self-determination, regardless of anything else.
-TheManInTheChair on
Me and my ex used to quote these last two lines all the time….
I miss her.
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For those unaware, the lost cause myth was coined in 1866 by Edward A. Pollard and essentially reinvented the American civil war to be about state rights over its actual intended cause being slavery. It was a romanticisation of the war which saw state loving confederates fight for their righteous land over the powerful and superior Union, it also portrayed the south as a nice idyllic land with kind slave owners and loyal content slaves happy to work the lands for their benevolent owners. It was a massive attempt at historical revisionism particularly by the united daughters of the confederacy who memorialised confederate soldiers and propagated the myth into education.
I mean, it kinda highlighted a major issue with the USA, in my opinion… no state is free to leave and declare independence without an all-out war breaking out.
Not saying this in favour of the South, slavery had to go, even though if it didn’t, and it just became something else (USA penal system).
But yeah, I do believe that every single nation should have the right to self-determination, regardless of anything else.
Me and my ex used to quote these last two lines all the time….
I miss her.