You studied history. It was my undergraduate minor. You know as well as I do, historians are like economists ... you ask ten of them the same question and you get ten different explanations.
All history is revisionist.
REVISIONISTS of the leftist/statist/fascist sort don't even agree WHAT happened, much less why. what they do is LIE about uncomfortable facts.
once again, (SIGH!) all traditional historians were either neutral or PRO-dixie, untilm the rise of the FALLACY of revisionist historiography.
free dixie,sw