[Pelham]

"Naw, it's not "moral superiority", it's a simple desire to keep the historical record accurate against a seemingly endless supply of Lost Cause mythologizers." to resurrect Union Bloody Shirt Triumphalism, the secular religion of nation worship and national division that was once thankfully buried by Civil War veterans themselves. But like the current fascination with the undead it is inexplicably walking among us.

[BroJoeK]

Pelham: "...resurrect Union Bloody Shirt Triumphalism..."

Naw, the only Bloody Shirt waving here comes from our Lost Causer FRiends, who just can't get over their ancestors' utter military defeat and Unconditional Surrender.
For you people, real history is never enough, only extravagant mythology can salve your wounds and still your anguish, so you come on these threads to claim & complain about alleged offenses by "Ape" Lincoln and his Black Republicans against Southerners who never cared about slavery, but did in 1861 wish to prevent the Progressive (1912), New Deal (1932), Great Society (1964) and Obamalamadingdong (2008) eras.

Now that was a real war worth fighting, right?
If Confederates in 1861 could have prevented President Wilson in 1912 and FDR in 1932, that's a worthy Lost Cause, isn't it?

Oh, wait... Southerners voted in block for Southern Democrat Wilson in 1912 and New York Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in 1932... oh, well, never mind.