Posted on 04/10/2015 5:03:22 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
One hundred-fifty years after Appomattox, many Southerners still won’t give up.
One hundred fifty years ago, on April 9th, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the Union triumphed in the Civil War. Yet the passage of a century and a half has not dimmed the passion for the Confederacy among many Americans. Just three weeks ago, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) appeared before the Supreme Court arguing for the right to put a Confederate flag on vanity license plates in Texas. Just why would someone in 2015 want a Confederate flag on their license plate? The answer is likely not a desire to overtly display one’s genealogical research skills; nor can it be simplistically understood solely as an exhibition of racism, although the power of the Confederate flag to convey white supremacist beliefs cannot be discounted.
Rather, displaying the Confederate flag in 2015 is an indicator of a complex and reactionary politics that is very much alive in America today. It is a politics that harks back to the South’s proud stand in the Civil War as a way of rallying opinion against the federal government—and against the country’s changing demographic, economic, and moral character, of which Washington is often seen as the malign author. Today’s understanding of the Confederacy by its supporters is thus neither nostalgia, nor mere heritage; rather Confederate sympathy in 2015 is a well-funded and active political movement (which, in turn, supports a lucrative Confederate memorabilia industry).
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The film is much more romanticized than the book. Mitchell had quite a few caveats about that. Especially the depiction of Tara, which in the book, is a simple farmhouse. That said, it is beautifully done with a superb performance by Vivien Leigh. I can’t imagine how many people ran to read the book after that and then checked out a history book on the subject. That is what art does: it educates, enlightens and entertains.
I use IMDB only to find out the facts of a movie - not it’s attitude towards a movie.
P.S.: what do you think is inaccurate in the film?
But he rescues Ashley Wilkes and the other Ku Klux Klan members when their raid on a shantytown runs into a Yankee ambush. Of course, poor Frank, Mr. Scarlett O'Hara #2, takes a yankee bullet in the head in that raid.
Could you please talk to your stupid south-haters and leave me alone with your dopey comments about GWTW? I’ve always known that freepers were ignorant about culture (which is why Conservatives lost the culture and have lost the country)but I don’t have to muck about in it for over 500 posts.
Who do you suppose she is referring to?
You’re the one who waded into a Civil War thread. Do you deny that Rhett Butler rescues the poor Klansmen from the mean ol’ yankee ambush?
I don’t see why you’re so drove-up about him being a rapist. He’s already a slaver and the primary icon of the RATs.
Being a rapist only adds to the democrat “charm”.
Washington was also a slave owner.
Since you are already equating Jefferson’s slave owning with rape do you do the same with Washington?
Have you read the book?
There’s absolutely no evidence that Jefferson was a rapist. Geez, the hatred that flows out on this site sometimes is astonishing. And now onto our founding fathers!
It's not the preponderance of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge.
All seriousness aside, he is the titular head of the RAT party, and they've been raping the American people for 150 years.
That’s right - let’s forget the Declaration of Independence and focus on the rat party. Sheesh.
>> let’s forget the Declaration of Independence and focus on the rat party.
He didn’t mean it, he was stroking his Koran.
focus on the rat party. Sheesh.
The Confederates ARE "the RAT party".
Um...there are no more Confederates.
To you.
No southerner? The vote was always 100% Dem? That's amazing.
This has only changed recently. Southern conservatives are like the Conservatives of today they are stuck in a Party they don't belong in. Get it yet?
Well you're dead wrong as the vote was never 100% to 0%. Try another excuse as to why southerners loved FDR so much and sing his praises today in songs like "Song of the South" by Alabama.
Oh no, the south loves FDR, always has, always will. They sing his praises in songs like "Song of the South" by Alabama to this day.
I repeat: the Midwest has, in general, been much more liberal than the south - just check out the career of William Jennings Bryan. You don’t catch complete lunatics like Jesse Ventura or Al Franken being voted in down south.
Minnesota is damn near Canada. Hell, I live closer to Mississippi than Minnesota. And the south has always elected it's socialists like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Do you people not know basic history?
What power did the Federal Government have in 1866 that it didn't have in 1860?
Move it two years, and ask me that question again.
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