Or maybe they are just uneducated. They don’t study the origins of the Civil War (except in cliched ways), they have no interest in the history of the Civil War or the effects that Reconstruction had on the south (I assume they think southerners deserved everything they got). Stephen Hayes took a “sabbatical” in Spain while I took my “sabbatical” in Alabama. They know nothing about the south except what is in bad movies and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Hollywood almost always portrays the South as bad since Harper Lee put pen to paper