“...and get on with leading a redeemed life, like all of us need to.”
You really need to go find some smarter Yankees to this thread. You aren’t doing so well with what you’ve got so far.
Yes, we Southerners need to redeem ourselves so that we can still be considered Americans, isn’t that what you mean?
Not hardly.
Soutnerners and everyone else need to be about leading a redeemed life and a part of that is leaving the past behind and moving forward in the present, toward positive ends.