"terms of art" in history/historiography have WELL-understood & FIXED meanings.
REVISIONIST/REVISIONISM is ONE of those "terms of art".
REVISIONIST historiography came out of the MOST extreme, south-HATING,LEFTIST/SOCIALIST (some would say COMMUNIST), lunatic fringe of northeastern "poison ivy league" academia in the mid-1960s.
southerners & most INTELLIGENT folk are NOT revisionists, but rather traditionalists, when it comes to history.
btw, MOST REVISIONISTS also HATE the USA & all that the USA stands for in the modern world.
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Jimmy Carter's Dad was. Lots of others down Souf' who portrayed themselves as "good Democrats" were actually loose cannons in the Socialist legions.
As I said, the issue was slavery, and South Carolina started the war.