That said, I consider the issue closed.
Southern Culture is just fine by me, but re-fighting the late unpleasantness is getting to be a waste of bandwith.
Well, it isn't for two reasons:
1. If constitutionalism isn't understood by the People, if they are kept from learning what it really is, then they can't practice it, and various demagogues (Thaddeus Stevens's name came up -- and I'll add Bill and Hillary Clinton) can slide various toxic proposals past them intended to increase demagogic power at the expense of constitutional restraint. Bill Clinton's various gun-grabbing proposals and Hillarycare are two good examples.
2. Just as bad as political demagogues are the Marxist polemicists like the aforementioned Foner and McPherson, who are, notwithstanding but even because of the colossal political failure of Marxism-Leninism in the USSR, attempting to use revisionist history to attack us yet again, and to destroy the People's ability to think about Liberty and Independence by fuzzing and undermining basic principles of the Republic in their false teaching.
As a subset of their attack on the United States, Foner and McPherson and others are pushing in particular one line of argument, that the Civil War was a "war of liberation" (ever hear that phrase before?) in which a vanguard leadership -- Lincoln and his Cabinet -- delivered a people out of bondage and the nation out of darkness. It's claptrap, but it serves their further purposes, and that's why they've been resolutely, and with Sovietical discipline, slanging the South for a dozen years now.