Then you've got even less excuse for buying into the Old South mythology.
If I had a nickel for everybody who thinks they've discovered bold new truths about the Civil War when they're just repeating what Southerners told themselves a century ago, I'd be a rich man.
And a lot of people are getting rich off retreading the old rationalizations as new discoveries -- DiLorenzo, the Kennedy Brothers, etc.
They also get their nickels from people who learned the old Southern mythology in school a half century ago, who've convinced themselves that they were taught something very different and only recently discovered the "truth" that they were actually spoon-fed in grade school.
Ah but you don’t understand. It can all be easily explained away as money and power. You needn’t look any further.
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I don’t buy the mythology of the South anymore than the mythology of the North. Economics. Money. Power. That;s what wars are fought over. And Lincoln was not a god.